"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.
Girl, what are you scared of?
All will be lost anyway
I see no good reason to wait, I will meet you
There's a light where you go
There's a light where you go
Don't let a missed exit haunt you
There will be no air to breathe
The helplessness like you would not believe
I won't blame you
There's a light where she goes
All is right where she goes
Stay if you think we could pull through
A curse is as strong as there is
The calm collects what is his
I gotta plead with your machines
I'm at the feet of your machines
Tell me anything at all
If it's a false alarm, then forget what I said
If the snake won't bite, then I take it all back
If there's wine in that bottle, then bring me a glass
I'll eat crow, it don't taste so bad
I gotta plead with the machines
I'm at the feet of your machines
Tell me anything at all
The sun is out, out cold
When everybody gets a universe, they do what they want
I'm gonna need another universe, I tore mine apart
Yeah, when everybody gets a universe, they can do what they want
I tore mine apart, I tore mine apart
Tried to speak to machines
Tried to plead with machines
Pull me from the ledge I hear 'em, they're praying
All will be lost anyway
I see no good reason to wait, I will meet you
There's a light where you go
There's a light where you go
Don't let a missed exit haunt you
There will be no air to breathe
The helplessness like you would not believe
I won't blame you
There's a light where she goes
All is right where she goes
Stay if you think we could pull through
A curse is as strong as there is
The calm collects what is his
I gotta plead with your machines
I'm at the feet of your machines
Tell me anything at all
If it's a false alarm, then forget what I said
If the snake won't bite, then I take it all back
If there's wine in that bottle, then bring me a glass
I'll eat crow, it don't taste so bad
I gotta plead with the machines
I'm at the feet of your machines
Tell me anything at all
The sun is out, out cold
When everybody gets a universe, they do what they want
I'm gonna need another universe, I tore mine apart
Yeah, when everybody gets a universe, they can do what they want
I tore mine apart, I tore mine apart
Tried to speak to machines
Tried to plead with machines
Pull me from the ledge I hear 'em, they're praying
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
C++ (Love Will Get You Killed) Lyrics as written by Keith Michael Buckley Jordan Taylor Buckley
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