"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.
Out on the water in a sea of change
I wonder if you can recall my name
You gave it all before you took it away, yeah
You took it away
You and all the other racing rats
You got my heart and tried to turn it black
Well, now it's beating you I'm taking it back, yeah
I'm taking it back from you
I'm taking it back from you
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Still feel I need to give you thanks
You took my edge, sharpened it in case
You were the one needed cutting away, yeah
I cut you away
You're a devil in a savior's robes
Made it easier to let you go
I never should have let you get so close, yeah
You got too close, too close to me
Too close to me
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
You're a devil in a savior's robes
Made it easier to let you go
I never should have let you get so close, yeah
You got too close
You and all the other racing rats
You got my heart and tried to turn it black
Well, now it's beating you I'm taking it back, yeah
I'm taking it back from you
I'm taking it back from you
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
I wonder if you can recall my name
You gave it all before you took it away, yeah
You took it away
You and all the other racing rats
You got my heart and tried to turn it black
Well, now it's beating you I'm taking it back, yeah
I'm taking it back from you
I'm taking it back from you
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Still feel I need to give you thanks
You took my edge, sharpened it in case
You were the one needed cutting away, yeah
I cut you away
You're a devil in a savior's robes
Made it easier to let you go
I never should have let you get so close, yeah
You got too close, too close to me
Too close to me
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
You're a devil in a savior's robes
Made it easier to let you go
I never should have let you get so close, yeah
You got too close
You and all the other racing rats
You got my heart and tried to turn it black
Well, now it's beating you I'm taking it back, yeah
I'm taking it back from you
I'm taking it back from you
Play us a song I know
Make it an older one
Don't you get it?
Say it before I go
Tell me I'm everything you ever wanted
Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Savior's Robes Lyrics as written by Sean Michael Wellman-mackin Ryan William Key
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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