"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.
Do you think about me cause I don't have any doubt
You must in this life
Even though you're never there, I didn't feel you disappear
From sight, you did it well
And now you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if I
I had the chance, I'd let you know that I understand
I've let you go
I don't need you by my side I think by now I'm doin' fine
Myself, on my own
And I feel you time to time, like you're sending outta sign
I can tell you're not alone
Because you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if the
The chance appears I'd have no fears
We both share pain, we feel the same
And now you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if I
I had the chance, I'd let you know that I understand
I've let you go
You and I share the same life missin' out
So the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if the
The chance appears, well I'd have no fears
We both share pain, we feel the same
You must in this life
Even though you're never there, I didn't feel you disappear
From sight, you did it well
And now you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if I
I had the chance, I'd let you know that I understand
I've let you go
I don't need you by my side I think by now I'm doin' fine
Myself, on my own
And I feel you time to time, like you're sending outta sign
I can tell you're not alone
Because you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if the
The chance appears I'd have no fears
We both share pain, we feel the same
And now you and I share the same life missin' out
And so the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if I
I had the chance, I'd let you know that I understand
I've let you go
You and I share the same life missin' out
So the story goes
That we're left, we're stuck with a broken house
I know that if the
The chance appears, well I'd have no fears
We both share pain, we feel the same
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Never There Lyrics as written by Deryck Whibley
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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@jether That doesn't make sense, first off Walking Disaster is about anger and resentment towards the household the protagonist had to live in while he explicitly states he run away from it, it literally says "sorry, mom, but I don't miss you" while he also states that his father wasn't absent.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, Never There doesn't talk to the parent that was there with the protagonist, but rather the parent who was never there (sounds familiar?) explaining how he have moved on and doesn't hold any resentment for it.