"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.
let me go
gravity gets us all
just thought you should know
in tomorrow's morning light
things will look a lot less frightening than now
than now
than now
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
so you let me go
i guess i understand
i was the one who told you to
so the morning came just to leave
and nothing was ever the same
the same
the same
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
just hold me instead
just hold me instead
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
instead
gravity gets us all
just thought you should know
in tomorrow's morning light
things will look a lot less frightening than now
than now
than now
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
so you let me go
i guess i understand
i was the one who told you to
so the morning came just to leave
and nothing was ever the same
the same
the same
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
just hold me instead
just hold me instead
maybe just maybe
we could rewrite history
baby i'm fading
oh, i could use a little saving
maybe you could forget what i said
and just hold me instead
instead
Lyrics submitted by musichigh
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