"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.
Sometimes I need to paint
You could be my canvas
Sometimes I want to escape
Even though it's selfish
I’m always coming over and smoking you out
Because everything is better with a
Blunt in your mouth as the clock strikes 12
I'll be freaking you out
Make us both forget what
We were worried about
Traffic's jammed on the 405
I hop in the whip cause there’s not much time
I’m gonna get to you
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Sometimes I bite my lip so I
Don’t slip and say "Hi!"s name
Cause in these magic moments I
Get homesick all the same
I’m always coming over and smoking you out
Because everything is better with a
Blunt in your mouth
If I waited for you I’d just be waiting alone
So when the clock strikes 2 I'll
Be on my way home
Traffic's jammed on the 405
I hop in the whip cause there’s not much time
Dammit I’m gonna get to you
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Ill be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing’s going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Said on my way
He said he was born to be the other man
So, I go to see him when I get the chance
(So, I go to see him when I get the chance)
Baby I'm on my way
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Ill be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Gonna do what I got to do gonna get to you
You could be my canvas
Sometimes I want to escape
Even though it's selfish
I’m always coming over and smoking you out
Because everything is better with a
Blunt in your mouth as the clock strikes 12
I'll be freaking you out
Make us both forget what
We were worried about
Traffic's jammed on the 405
I hop in the whip cause there’s not much time
I’m gonna get to you
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Sometimes I bite my lip so I
Don’t slip and say "Hi!"s name
Cause in these magic moments I
Get homesick all the same
I’m always coming over and smoking you out
Because everything is better with a
Blunt in your mouth
If I waited for you I’d just be waiting alone
So when the clock strikes 2 I'll
Be on my way home
Traffic's jammed on the 405
I hop in the whip cause there’s not much time
Dammit I’m gonna get to you
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Ill be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing’s going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Said on my way
He said he was born to be the other man
So, I go to see him when I get the chance
(So, I go to see him when I get the chance)
Baby I'm on my way
Fly through the streets like a
Hawk through the sky
Ill be in and out like a drive-by
I’m going to take the canyon
Feels so good because I know that it’s wrong
Get back home ain't nothing going on
I’m going to take the canyon
Gonna do what I got to do gonna get to you
Lyrics submitted by thrwmyhrtawy.
Take the Canyon Lyrics as written by Austin Brown Pavel Gitnik
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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