"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.
Aim, throw your best shot right at me
'Cause pain, I can take it easily
Did you really think I'd fall to my knees
Just to pray for some sweet simplicity?
'Cause woah, you're squeezing my heart
Too hard in your bare hands, they hold too tight
And woah the air is on fire
This room feels electric, cord here in your sights
Power, power
I will never understand the power you're holding over me
Power, power
Oh you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
Pain, just synapses firing in our brain
So when you cut me, cut me deep
Hurt the ones you love the most easily
'Cause in time we show our Achilles's heels
And woah, you're squeezing my heart
Too hard in your cold bare hands, they hold too tight
And woah the air is on fire
This room feels electric, cord here in your sights
Power, power
I will never understand the power you're holding over me
Power, power
Oh you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
If you're gonna hit me, hit me harder (hit me, hit me harder)
'Cause you better knock me out the first time
And if you're do this with the plaster (do this with the plaster)
Power, power
Blows my mind to think I ever let you hold it over me
Power, power
I will never understand the way I let you hold it over me
Power, power
Well you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
Power, oh, oh, power, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Power, power
I let you have it too long, yes you've had it too long
'Cause pain, I can take it easily
Did you really think I'd fall to my knees
Just to pray for some sweet simplicity?
'Cause woah, you're squeezing my heart
Too hard in your bare hands, they hold too tight
And woah the air is on fire
This room feels electric, cord here in your sights
Power, power
I will never understand the power you're holding over me
Power, power
Oh you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
Pain, just synapses firing in our brain
So when you cut me, cut me deep
Hurt the ones you love the most easily
'Cause in time we show our Achilles's heels
And woah, you're squeezing my heart
Too hard in your cold bare hands, they hold too tight
And woah the air is on fire
This room feels electric, cord here in your sights
Power, power
I will never understand the power you're holding over me
Power, power
Oh you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
If you're gonna hit me, hit me harder (hit me, hit me harder)
'Cause you better knock me out the first time
And if you're do this with the plaster (do this with the plaster)
Power, power
Blows my mind to think I ever let you hold it over me
Power, power
I will never understand the way I let you hold it over me
Power, power
Well you've had it too long, yes you've had it too long
Power, oh, oh, power, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Power, power
I let you have it too long, yes you've had it too long
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Power Lyrics as written by Mark Blair Crew Daniel Campbell Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave
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