"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.
Huh, sometimes you gotta just get lost...
Yeah, yeah
I say, bless me with a heart of gold
A positivity and a story to be told
I tripped, fell down through the sky,
It's what it took for me to learn how to fly
Like, oh yeah
Let me spirit fly,
My intentions are not to intoxicate but purify.
Give me truth, or every time I hear a lie
Joy be the only reason I get teary eyed.
Imagine all Lennon had to say,
To make us want to pray for peace every single day.
Keep your money don't want anything to do with it,
Reach your love, heart of gold, and I'm never losing this.
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
I look in the mirror to figure out who I am,
I thought I was a boy but I guess I am a man.
I burnt a bridge, but that's what it took for me to build a dam
I hang my head, I don't want to be that kind of man.
No, no, that's not how my daddy raised me
Work your ass off boy don't ever be lazy.
I owned it on the ball field, so my pa praised me
You could never beat me down or you could never phase me.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Even in the rough yeah you gotta see it through
Have a nice trip though, I'll see you next fall
The only thing I know is that I know nothing at all
Just...
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
My feet are innocent
My soul it understands
My feet are innocent
My soul yeah it understands
Oh you know that my soul yeah, understand, understands.
I said sometimes feelings can be hard to understand,
But if we understood them there'd be no point to the plan
I reach out with my hand
And to all of my fans,
To let you know that if you fall,
I will help you stand
To let you know that everyday I feel similar pain
The purpose of my music is to take it all away
So I say, salute you freedom fighters
Wave your flags high for,
Liberty we will die for.
Driftin' in the pursuit of happiness that we drive towards
A better future my people and me will strive towards.
I'm lost, I find myself while I search
Now I use music to pray with no words.
When you lose what you love, remember to stay strong.
Look out the window and remember life goes on.
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
My feet are innocent
My soul it understands
My feet are innocent
My soul yeah it understands
Oh you know that my soul yeah, understands, understands
Yeah, yeah
I say, bless me with a heart of gold
A positivity and a story to be told
I tripped, fell down through the sky,
It's what it took for me to learn how to fly
Like, oh yeah
Let me spirit fly,
My intentions are not to intoxicate but purify.
Give me truth, or every time I hear a lie
Joy be the only reason I get teary eyed.
Imagine all Lennon had to say,
To make us want to pray for peace every single day.
Keep your money don't want anything to do with it,
Reach your love, heart of gold, and I'm never losing this.
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
I look in the mirror to figure out who I am,
I thought I was a boy but I guess I am a man.
I burnt a bridge, but that's what it took for me to build a dam
I hang my head, I don't want to be that kind of man.
No, no, that's not how my daddy raised me
Work your ass off boy don't ever be lazy.
I owned it on the ball field, so my pa praised me
You could never beat me down or you could never phase me.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Even in the rough yeah you gotta see it through
Have a nice trip though, I'll see you next fall
The only thing I know is that I know nothing at all
Just...
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
My feet are innocent
My soul it understands
My feet are innocent
My soul yeah it understands
Oh you know that my soul yeah, understand, understands.
I said sometimes feelings can be hard to understand,
But if we understood them there'd be no point to the plan
I reach out with my hand
And to all of my fans,
To let you know that if you fall,
I will help you stand
To let you know that everyday I feel similar pain
The purpose of my music is to take it all away
So I say, salute you freedom fighters
Wave your flags high for,
Liberty we will die for.
Driftin' in the pursuit of happiness that we drive towards
A better future my people and me will strive towards.
I'm lost, I find myself while I search
Now I use music to pray with no words.
When you lose what you love, remember to stay strong.
Look out the window and remember life goes on.
Curious whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all.
I said you really don't care at all
I'm just curious, whatchu gonna do?
Lost for words and you find you really don't care at all
I said you really don't care at all
My feet are innocent
My soul it understands
My feet are innocent
My soul yeah it understands
Oh you know that my soul yeah, understands, understands
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