"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.
I don't want to leave home but my house is falling down
I don't want to be alone but there's no one else around
I don't want to make a noise but the silence is killing me
I don't want to learn a new dance routine but this loneliness
is a ring of roses circling me
I still have choices
I don't want to swim but my boat is capsizing in
I don't want to keep running but the ground is a fire still burning
I don't want to lose but I got nothing left to gamble
I don't want to beg but I don’t want to fight crawling down there again
(and again, and again, and again)
I still have choices
I don't want to walk away bit I really don't know how to stay
I don't want to stay inside but what goes on behind my closed door
outside I don't know?
I don't want to look but avoiding it is even more perverted
I don't want to hate but trusting you gathers all my rage
I still have choices
I don't want to carry your jealous void but the time can suffocate
the vibration of your voice
I don't want to be told but independence is hard to hold
I don't want to pretend but you don't want to remember way back then
I don't want to die but I don’t want to live not really alive
I still have choices, left.
I don't want to be alone but there's no one else around
I don't want to make a noise but the silence is killing me
I don't want to learn a new dance routine but this loneliness
is a ring of roses circling me
I still have choices
I don't want to swim but my boat is capsizing in
I don't want to keep running but the ground is a fire still burning
I don't want to lose but I got nothing left to gamble
I don't want to beg but I don’t want to fight crawling down there again
(and again, and again, and again)
I still have choices
I don't want to walk away bit I really don't know how to stay
I don't want to stay inside but what goes on behind my closed door
outside I don't know?
I don't want to look but avoiding it is even more perverted
I don't want to hate but trusting you gathers all my rage
I still have choices
I don't want to carry your jealous void but the time can suffocate
the vibration of your voice
I don't want to be told but independence is hard to hold
I don't want to pretend but you don't want to remember way back then
I don't want to die but I don’t want to live not really alive
I still have choices, left.
Lyrics submitted by toadling17
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