"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.
I'm standing on my own two feet
Somewhere hanging in between
My life and the death of me
Fate doesn't leave us time to waste
Weaving through the human race
'Till we run out of air to breathe
But no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
Life, a beautiful and fragile thing
Floating in the galaxy
I'm gonna let it set me free
Now is all we really ever have
Open your eyes and don't look back
Now gimme something to believe
'Cause no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
So no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
Somewhere hanging in between
My life and the death of me
Fate doesn't leave us time to waste
Weaving through the human race
'Till we run out of air to breathe
But no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
Life, a beautiful and fragile thing
Floating in the galaxy
I'm gonna let it set me free
Now is all we really ever have
Open your eyes and don't look back
Now gimme something to believe
'Cause no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
So no one's getting out alive
All the gold on earth, it won't buy time
So we might as well give up the fight
Live it up tonight
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
No one's getting out alive!
Lyrics submitted by thrwmyhrtawy.
Out Alive Lyrics as written by Kesha Sebert Joshua Coleman
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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