"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.
You said, "Take the violin that
You hang on your wall
Stick it under your bed before
It crumbles and falls
Just don't open your eyes
Before counting to ten"
I can hardly remember just the
Smell of your hands
As they danced on my body
Running over my pores
With the force of a steering
Wheel crushing my bones i said
"You smell like the devil but
You feel like the lord"
And when I think of perfection
You know I'm thinking of your voice
When you tell me you don't
Call him your baby
Because that was the name that
You rightfully gave me
And it's foolish to share with someone else
And my heart goes bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
But you admit that you’re lonely
You’re as cold as a statue
Pleading ‘fuck me’ on the marble that
Was used to create you
I can't stand that you’re talking
When you shouldn’t be living
I didn’t dodge all your bullets
Just denied that they hit me
So when my body is bleeding
I wont admit that this hurts
Because admitting isn’t fixing
So then what is it worth?
So to say you’re unhappy is
Like saying you’re sorry
It's nothing that I care to hear
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
So now the tears in your jeans
Are the holes in your armor
You’re the thoughts that I feared
You’re the mountains that I’ve conquered
If I told you I loved you
Would you reach out and touch me?
You taste like the ocean
And your body’s disgusting
The only reason you breathe is
To sleep through the night
The only reason you speak is to
Tell me that I’m fine
The only reason you breathe is
To sleep through the night
The only reason you speak is
To state that you’re mine
And my heart goes bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
You hang on your wall
Stick it under your bed before
It crumbles and falls
Just don't open your eyes
Before counting to ten"
I can hardly remember just the
Smell of your hands
As they danced on my body
Running over my pores
With the force of a steering
Wheel crushing my bones i said
"You smell like the devil but
You feel like the lord"
And when I think of perfection
You know I'm thinking of your voice
When you tell me you don't
Call him your baby
Because that was the name that
You rightfully gave me
And it's foolish to share with someone else
And my heart goes bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
But you admit that you’re lonely
You’re as cold as a statue
Pleading ‘fuck me’ on the marble that
Was used to create you
I can't stand that you’re talking
When you shouldn’t be living
I didn’t dodge all your bullets
Just denied that they hit me
So when my body is bleeding
I wont admit that this hurts
Because admitting isn’t fixing
So then what is it worth?
So to say you’re unhappy is
Like saying you’re sorry
It's nothing that I care to hear
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
So now the tears in your jeans
Are the holes in your armor
You’re the thoughts that I feared
You’re the mountains that I’ve conquered
If I told you I loved you
Would you reach out and touch me?
You taste like the ocean
And your body’s disgusting
The only reason you breathe is
To sleep through the night
The only reason you speak is to
Tell me that I’m fine
The only reason you breathe is
To sleep through the night
The only reason you speak is
To state that you’re mine
And my heart goes bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
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