"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.
On the blank lines ring the words right
Sing the same things for the new fight
Did you forget? I give it my best but only want the worst
And when the song rings through your new skin
Will you listen?
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck
On the same lines, it's about time
Curse the sad sight of your white trite
And it's always the same, I give it away but it just comes right back
But when the song rings through your new skin
Will you listen?
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
With good luck
Sing the same things for the new fight
Did you forget? I give it my best but only want the worst
And when the song rings through your new skin
Will you listen?
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck
On the same lines, it's about time
Curse the sad sight of your white trite
And it's always the same, I give it away but it just comes right back
But when the song rings through your new skin
Will you listen?
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck
I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
With good luck
Lyrics submitted by nikkus34
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