"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.
REWIND
there's always the past
stuck in the letdowns
laying your ass down
in the fire
we're the north americans
like a bird in the breeze
the gun stays pointed ahead
to end the fear
occupies like a protest
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
c'mon be a hero
you got to get us outta here outta here
let's countdown to zero
exploding our hearts to will we cry
if there's no tomorrow
We can't marry the future no oh oh
Let's just pray on our knees now
we've been really bad people
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
fear is a lesson
its the cost of love lost
we're built to survive
incarceration
we won't be young forever
we're built to survive
all our lives
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
there's always the past
stuck in the letdowns
laying your ass down
in the fire
we're the north americans
like a bird in the breeze
the gun stays pointed ahead
to end the fear
occupies like a protest
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
c'mon be a hero
you got to get us outta here outta here
let's countdown to zero
exploding our hearts to will we cry
if there's no tomorrow
We can't marry the future no oh oh
Let's just pray on our knees now
we've been really bad people
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
fear is a lesson
its the cost of love lost
we're built to survive
incarceration
we won't be young forever
we're built to survive
all our lives
don't play it like it ever has to be that way
you move so fast you forget your name
rewind come back here
were living on the edge where the good die young
lets kiss all night in our ancient tongue
rewind come back here
Lyrics submitted by passionatesleepyhead
Rewind Lyrics as written by Alexander Flynn Toth Adam Dotson
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB., Songtrust Ave
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