"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.
Always be there face I live with
Always be there face I live with
Abscess memory with broken fingers
All the fallen down angels raw pain distress
It's all
In the way we know that we could have it all
Some
Satellites of pain can't always be ignored
War on all sides
War on all sides
Drink life as it comes straight no chaser
Life as it comes straight no chaser
Climb inside you away from strangers
Building a system of alleys and motorways
It's all
In the way we know
We could have it all
Some
Satellites of pain can't always be ignored
It's all in the face of what we thought we knew before
War on all sides
War on all sides
War on all sides
Keep on driving hair left morning wet
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
Always be there face I live with
Abscess memory with broken fingers
All the fallen down angels raw pain distress
It's all
In the way we know that we could have it all
Some
Satellites of pain can't always be ignored
War on all sides
War on all sides
Drink life as it comes straight no chaser
Life as it comes straight no chaser
Climb inside you away from strangers
Building a system of alleys and motorways
It's all
In the way we know
We could have it all
Some
Satellites of pain can't always be ignored
It's all in the face of what we thought we knew before
War on all sides
War on all sides
War on all sides
Keep on driving hair left morning wet
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
There's nothing like losing you
Lyrics submitted by Moondragon
Straight No Chaser Lyrics as written by Gavin Rossdale
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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and i forgot to add that this song makes me cry, don't ask. and now I think that the "relationship side" to this song, was about Gavin and Jasmine Lewis (sp?) breaking up, i know that in their book he says that a lot of razorblade suitcase was about her, so i figured "there's nothing like losing you" was about her. But it means whatever the hell you want it to mean, i've learned that from trying to figure out the true meaning in bush songs.