"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.
Well I drag my feet on through the sand
and where I land will be where I am
now who's to say that you're a better man?
Who's to say that we mean anything
to anyone
I've been gone so long
It's hard moving on
When the end wasn't quite what we expected
I don't feel like we've invested
This is where i'll be
If you need me ill be living
If you need me ill be living
Cause i just don't see if its worth it to be
So damn bitter about everything
Never seems to get me anything
Well I've been losing sleep for weeks and
and I feel anxious around my friends
Just the other day i found a gray
As I'm getting older
I found that nothing stays the same
You've gotta learn to embrace the change
alright
Seems like every day i wake
in the same place
Waiting for a change
the way we work and play
My times all been invested
in the test and then the competition
It's all repetition
and we've all been conditioned
but we won't let go of tradition
It's all an exhibition
of what people think that we should be
or what we think that others would like to see
but its just not me
I've been losing sleep for weeks and
and i feel anxious around my friends
Just the other day i found a gray
As i'm getting older
I find nothing stays the same
You've gotta learn to embrace the change
alright
I'm not trying to be
something I don't already see in me
It's just a matter of choosing
but i'm not trying to see
anything that's never been seen
I just wanna see it for me
come on
So come with me and lets find some meaning (so come with me) x3
So some with me and lets find some meaning
and where I land will be where I am
now who's to say that you're a better man?
Who's to say that we mean anything
to anyone
I've been gone so long
It's hard moving on
When the end wasn't quite what we expected
I don't feel like we've invested
This is where i'll be
If you need me ill be living
If you need me ill be living
Cause i just don't see if its worth it to be
So damn bitter about everything
Never seems to get me anything
Well I've been losing sleep for weeks and
and I feel anxious around my friends
Just the other day i found a gray
As I'm getting older
I found that nothing stays the same
You've gotta learn to embrace the change
alright
Seems like every day i wake
in the same place
Waiting for a change
the way we work and play
My times all been invested
in the test and then the competition
It's all repetition
and we've all been conditioned
but we won't let go of tradition
It's all an exhibition
of what people think that we should be
or what we think that others would like to see
but its just not me
I've been losing sleep for weeks and
and i feel anxious around my friends
Just the other day i found a gray
As i'm getting older
I find nothing stays the same
You've gotta learn to embrace the change
alright
I'm not trying to be
something I don't already see in me
It's just a matter of choosing
but i'm not trying to see
anything that's never been seen
I just wanna see it for me
come on
So come with me and lets find some meaning (so come with me) x3
So some with me and lets find some meaning
Lyrics submitted by throughthestatic
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