"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.
We are names and we are faces
Not listed in the pages
You're searching line by line
The voices in the wire
The glass under your tires
The panic in your eyes
And when we start to lose control
And when we start to lose our minds
That's when I close my eyes and feel
A sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
Like the Fourth of July
Hey
I am as patient as a volcano
A butterfly in a landmine field
I am the dandelion making guns go silent
Sticking out of every barrel cold as steel
And in this fight you started
I'm a moving target
And I'm sick of running
But the pain keeps coming
Like a sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
Like the Fourth of July
Hey
Searching for something worth saving
From this fire
Try to envision the glass half-full
Give me a reason to smother these flames now
Before they begin to grow
I can't stop the sky from falling
All I hear are voices calling
Asking, "Have you come to heal us?"
Touch my shaking hand you'll feel
A sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
The Fourth of July
The bridge to ruins
We are black inside
Scorching the earth like it's the Fourth of July
If everything you knew
Was a goddamn lie
Would you up and explode
Like it's the Fourth of July?
Not listed in the pages
You're searching line by line
The voices in the wire
The glass under your tires
The panic in your eyes
And when we start to lose control
And when we start to lose our minds
That's when I close my eyes and feel
A sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
Like the Fourth of July
Hey
I am as patient as a volcano
A butterfly in a landmine field
I am the dandelion making guns go silent
Sticking out of every barrel cold as steel
And in this fight you started
I'm a moving target
And I'm sick of running
But the pain keeps coming
Like a sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
Like the Fourth of July
Hey
Searching for something worth saving
From this fire
Try to envision the glass half-full
Give me a reason to smother these flames now
Before they begin to grow
I can't stop the sky from falling
All I hear are voices calling
Asking, "Have you come to heal us?"
Touch my shaking hand you'll feel
A sudden urge
To watch this whole town burn
Light up the whole damn sky
Like the Fourth of July
The Fourth of July
The bridge to ruins
We are black inside
Scorching the earth like it's the Fourth of July
If everything you knew
Was a goddamn lie
Would you up and explode
Like it's the Fourth of July?
Lyrics submitted by BreezyDragon
Sudden Urge Lyrics as written by Joseph Principe Brandon Barnes
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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