"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.
Magazines and TV screens are telling me the world is going, going down
Happy days are few and far between
And I don't really like the way it sounds
I think my generation is growing up complaining
I need a shaking
Honestly, I need to dumb it down
I think my brain is burning out
Whoa-oh, call me a fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't right now
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Well call me crazy, call me lazy
Maybe you can even call me ignorant
Here's a tissue for your issue
I don't care right now if it's on CNN
I've got a lot to deal with
I'd rather just be chillin'
It's how I'm feeling
Maybe I can worry about it all tomorrow
I just won't today
Whoa-oh, call me a fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't right now
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Whoa-oh, call me your fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
[2x]
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Happy days are few and far between
And I don't really like the way it sounds
I think my generation is growing up complaining
I need a shaking
Honestly, I need to dumb it down
I think my brain is burning out
Whoa-oh, call me a fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't right now
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Well call me crazy, call me lazy
Maybe you can even call me ignorant
Here's a tissue for your issue
I don't care right now if it's on CNN
I've got a lot to deal with
I'd rather just be chillin'
It's how I'm feeling
Maybe I can worry about it all tomorrow
I just won't today
Whoa-oh, call me a fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't right now
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Whoa-oh, call me your fool
'Cause sometimes I just don't care
I don't
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
We all gotta do it, do it
'Cause life can be a bitch then we die, we die
There's so much shit to worry about
And that's the reason why
[2x]
It's why I spend all my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
All my days with my head up in the clouds
Like wow, wow
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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