"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.
Woke up feeling like "it puts the lotion in the basket"
Can you even recall the times?
Before your pheromones
Took your common sense hostage and left you in the rain to dry?
And if you'd ever even gotten everything that you wanted?
Well wouldn't that be some king shit?
But as the case would have it
Well, you certainly haven't
You've been hand-to-mouthing every step of it
All the old timers in the neighborhood swear
That you're cursed with a face people hate
But every single one of them's an endless variation of
Popeye raised on lead paint
And all the woulda coulda shoulda
Didn't cause my buddy's over
Get to it when this here is done
Repeated time and time again
It grows into a second skin
I can't believe that there even could be
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
Waiting for your schemes only weakens at the seams
All the scenes that you've spun in the dark
And who wants weak desires waiting for them in the wings
After years of leathering your scars
And all the woulda coulda shoulda
Didn't cause my buddy's over
Get to it when this here is done
Repeated time and time again
It grows into a second skin
I can't believe that there even could be
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
Can you even recall the times?
Before your pheromones
Took your common sense hostage and left you in the rain to dry?
And if you'd ever even gotten everything that you wanted?
Well wouldn't that be some king shit?
But as the case would have it
Well, you certainly haven't
You've been hand-to-mouthing every step of it
All the old timers in the neighborhood swear
That you're cursed with a face people hate
But every single one of them's an endless variation of
Popeye raised on lead paint
And all the woulda coulda shoulda
Didn't cause my buddy's over
Get to it when this here is done
Repeated time and time again
It grows into a second skin
I can't believe that there even could be
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
Waiting for your schemes only weakens at the seams
All the scenes that you've spun in the dark
And who wants weak desires waiting for them in the wings
After years of leathering your scars
And all the woulda coulda shoulda
Didn't cause my buddy's over
Get to it when this here is done
Repeated time and time again
It grows into a second skin
I can't believe that there even could be
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
A secret life between your eyes that I don't seem to see
Are you satisfied with waiting here for heaven forever?
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
(ydob ym tool ot eerf leef)
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