"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.
[Verse 1]
I hate myself when I open my eyes
Sunny days feel bankrupt
So I sleep forever
In sweet misery
You were my only good dream
[Chorus]
You think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
Oh
[Verse 2]
I woke up still drunk with bleach in my hair
I wanted to feel like a stranger
But I just felt like shit
And I dreamt you were here
It's my fault your love disappeared
[Chorus]
Yeah, you think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
[Bridge]
I would've never left your life
I feel we were two intertwined
I won't ever cross your mind
And the way that you'll stay in mine
I'll never know why you gave up on us
[Chorus]
You think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
I hate myself when I open my eyes
Sunny days feel bankrupt
So I sleep forever
In sweet misery
You were my only good dream
[Chorus]
You think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
Oh
[Verse 2]
I woke up still drunk with bleach in my hair
I wanted to feel like a stranger
But I just felt like shit
And I dreamt you were here
It's my fault your love disappeared
[Chorus]
Yeah, you think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
[Bridge]
I would've never left your life
I feel we were two intertwined
I won't ever cross your mind
And the way that you'll stay in mine
I'll never know why you gave up on us
[Chorus]
You think that I wanted anything else
Anything other than this
I feel you slipping away from me now
Feel it but what can I do?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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