"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.
I made a mistake
Now you can choose to stay and live with that mistake
Or you can beat me over the head with it over and over
'Till I'm gone
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, til I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
If you're blinded by the limelight that shines bright
On this individual's residuals fond slitch
Your mind might rip up the mess to design fights
To cry heif, destined to plummet in hindsight
If you feel you in my shadow and females'll get you rattled
With every tale they tattle, you raise hell in battle
Let us jail and hassle when the Queendom fails the castle
She unveils the shackles trying to bail is natural
You still here but complaints they stick
'Cause my life is too complicated and ain't basic
So the saint may split
Stay after that hiccup, you can't play vict
No you can't say sh
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, 'till I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You chose to ride on this carousel
Anything petty, I para sail over
You stay where there is hell
I'm drowning in Ceroquel
Embarrassed this resembles marriage under a terror spell
Running free even though the cerebel isn't parallel
I do something you think is shady and you stay
Says you agree with us moving forward and we like okay
But a year later that means you can't take us back to that day
If so, better watch what you say 'cause it'll have us in disarray
Aye, so beat it 'till it's broke and closed
Break me down it won't be smooth like lotioned bows
Chosen souls meet the love potion flows
But when the oceans froze that's when we get ghost and rogue
Baby
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, 'till I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
Break it, I'll be on my own (just me)
Back home, I'll be good (where I belong)
(Yeah) Break it, I'll be on my own
Back home, I'll be good
Don't do it
Move forward
You keep nagging me over and over
'Till I'm Gone
Now you can choose to stay and live with that mistake
Or you can beat me over the head with it over and over
'Till I'm gone
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, til I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
If you're blinded by the limelight that shines bright
On this individual's residuals fond slitch
Your mind might rip up the mess to design fights
To cry heif, destined to plummet in hindsight
If you feel you in my shadow and females'll get you rattled
With every tale they tattle, you raise hell in battle
Let us jail and hassle when the Queendom fails the castle
She unveils the shackles trying to bail is natural
You still here but complaints they stick
'Cause my life is too complicated and ain't basic
So the saint may split
Stay after that hiccup, you can't play vict
No you can't say sh
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, 'till I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You chose to ride on this carousel
Anything petty, I para sail over
You stay where there is hell
I'm drowning in Ceroquel
Embarrassed this resembles marriage under a terror spell
Running free even though the cerebel isn't parallel
I do something you think is shady and you stay
Says you agree with us moving forward and we like okay
But a year later that means you can't take us back to that day
If so, better watch what you say 'cause it'll have us in disarray
Aye, so beat it 'till it's broke and closed
Break me down it won't be smooth like lotioned bows
Chosen souls meet the love potion flows
But when the oceans froze that's when we get ghost and rogue
Baby
Beat it 'till it's broke and closed
'Till I'm gone, 'till I'm gone
This heart is just a fallen rose
So I'm gone, so I'm gone
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
You know you're my highlight
Fell into the limelight
Break me, I'll be all right
Know that I'll be all right
Break it, I'll be on my own (just me)
Back home, I'll be good (where I belong)
(Yeah) Break it, I'll be on my own
Back home, I'll be good
Don't do it
Move forward
You keep nagging me over and over
'Till I'm Gone
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Til I'm Gone Lyrics as written by Amanda Ibanez Aaron Yates
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