"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 land in the wind of a hurricane
Down at the bar like a star in the howlin' rain
Nobody to love you
Nobody to care
If you got
Nobody to hug you
No one to answer your prayer
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
One at a time
Get in line for the masquerade
Drink 'til you cry
And you're lying in the mess you made
Nobody to love you
Nobody to care
Nobody to drug you
No one to hold back your hair
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
Low
High
High
Low
Low
High
High
Low
Down at the bar like a star in the howlin' rain
Nobody to love you
Nobody to care
If you got
Nobody to hug you
No one to answer your prayer
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
One at a time
Get in line for the masquerade
Drink 'til you cry
And you're lying in the mess you made
Nobody to love you
Nobody to care
Nobody to drug you
No one to hold back your hair
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
You get low (low)
Like a valley
High (high)
Like a bird in the sky
You get low (low)
'Cause you're angry
Low
High
High
Low
Low
High
High
Low
Low
High
High
Low
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Lo/Hi Lyrics as written by Patrick James Carney Daniel Quine Auerbach
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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