"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.
Tripping over things unsaid in a constant motion
I cannot recognize the truth 'cause it's unfamiliar
If you didn't have so much left to prove, would there be resistance?
Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
I had been there and done it a thousand times but never with my eyes open
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
Yeah, Talk
No one hesitates to taste when they come and throw the feed down
If you wanna not make haste, keep your feet on the ground
I see you coming from a million miles away like a stampede of footsteps
Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
You can't control what has happened to your heart
Till you give it away, till you give it away
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
So many words flooded inmy vacant lie
So little space, too little sleep, too little time
Tripping over things unsaid in a constant motion
I cannot recognize the truth 'cause I've never known it
I've never known it, I've never known it, known
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
I see you coming from a million miles away
I see you coming from a million miles away
I cannot recognize the truth 'cause it's unfamiliar
If you didn't have so much left to prove, would there be resistance?
Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
I had been there and done it a thousand times but never with my eyes open
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
Yeah, Talk
No one hesitates to taste when they come and throw the feed down
If you wanna not make haste, keep your feet on the ground
I see you coming from a million miles away like a stampede of footsteps
Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
You can't control what has happened to your heart
Till you give it away, till you give it away
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
So many words flooded inmy vacant lie
So little space, too little sleep, too little time
Tripping over things unsaid in a constant motion
I cannot recognize the truth 'cause I've never known it
I've never known it, I've never known it, known
You get what you paid for
We can't sell our
Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don't let them give you the runaround again, again
It's up to you to make sense of it
I see you coming from a million miles away
I see you coming from a million miles away
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Sharp Practice Lyrics as written by Colin Frangicetto Anthony Green
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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It's pretty much about how they sold there souls to the industry and the industry fucked them over. so now they're done selling their souls and moving ahead and speaking out against it subliminally. know:truth