"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.
Well you could kill me right now
With a turn from a kiss and a purse of your lips
I'd be down
Well you could end my last doubt
With a spite in your voice, a care unworthy of the choice
You're screaming like I'm forcing you out
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
We were as tall as heaven
Well you could save me right now
Just a short drive away, I'm not asking you to stay
It's just not healthy to feel this way tonight
I know you hate me right now
All the things that we said, only our parents meant
Am I really not worth a friend after all this time?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
We were as tall as heaven
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
The closest I've ever been
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(Oh, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I'll ever get
We were as tall as heaven
We were as tall as heaven
With a turn from a kiss and a purse of your lips
I'd be down
Well you could end my last doubt
With a spite in your voice, a care unworthy of the choice
You're screaming like I'm forcing you out
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
We were as tall as heaven
Well you could save me right now
Just a short drive away, I'm not asking you to stay
It's just not healthy to feel this way tonight
I know you hate me right now
All the things that we said, only our parents meant
Am I really not worth a friend after all this time?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
We were as tall as heaven
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
And all this time spent on you
All these lines I wrote you
How do they mean nothing at all?
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(I felt it, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I've ever been
The closest I've ever been
We almost touched it
(I touched it, I touched it)
Couldn't you feel it?
(Oh, I felt it)
We tasted perfection, the closest I'll ever get
We were as tall as heaven
We were as tall as heaven
Lyrics submitted by jackbatman
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