"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Heavy are the branches
Hanging from my fucked up family tree
And heavy was my father
A stoic man of pride and privacy
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
It's heavy as I breathe
Because I don't believe in second chances
It's heavy as I leave
As prideful as a man he was
Proud my father never was of me
I did it for survival
But I looked like the asshole anyway
You ate up all my breadcrumbs
Now I'm lost alone inside your cave
Among six billion people
I want the ones who never wanted me
I'm not one for religion
But I can't seem to ditch this imagery
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
It's heavy as I breathe
Because I don't believe in second chances
It's heavy as I leave
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
I can't breathe
Hanging from my fucked up family tree
And heavy was my father
A stoic man of pride and privacy
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
It's heavy as I breathe
Because I don't believe in second chances
It's heavy as I leave
As prideful as a man he was
Proud my father never was of me
I did it for survival
But I looked like the asshole anyway
You ate up all my breadcrumbs
Now I'm lost alone inside your cave
Among six billion people
I want the ones who never wanted me
I'm not one for religion
But I can't seem to ditch this imagery
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
It's heavy as I breathe
Because I don't believe in second chances
It's heavy as I leave
And I don't care much for wishful thinking
I can't breathe
Lyrics submitted by mercmcguirk, edited by xaml, Contaminator
Heavy is As Heavy Does Lyrics as written by Justin Andrew Harris Daniel Frederic Seim
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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