"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.
Late one night when I was sad I walked down to a lonely place where I was safe drank a beer and thought I had to hold the world up in my hands so full of shame thinking back when I was bad the t
I said to all my friends I shouldn't have and the moon was red and I cried then some one touched me on My back and I turned around to the most beautiful girl with black hair and curls brandy and
Ls when I asked her her name she said look your star struck in love wake up my friend you've been dreaming again all at once it came to me id been a fool for all those years that follow me every
Of everyday I went to war to save my self from all those fears all was lost in late July I found my peace in marching home to heal my wounds and the moon was red and I cried then some one touched
On my back and I turned around to the most beautiful girl with black hair and curls brandy and pearls when I asked her her name she said look you're star struck in love wake up my friend you've be
Dreaming again
I said to all my friends I shouldn't have and the moon was red and I cried then some one touched me on My back and I turned around to the most beautiful girl with black hair and curls brandy and
Ls when I asked her her name she said look your star struck in love wake up my friend you've been dreaming again all at once it came to me id been a fool for all those years that follow me every
Of everyday I went to war to save my self from all those fears all was lost in late July I found my peace in marching home to heal my wounds and the moon was red and I cried then some one touched
On my back and I turned around to the most beautiful girl with black hair and curls brandy and pearls when I asked her her name she said look you're star struck in love wake up my friend you've be
Dreaming again
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Dreaming Again Lyrics as written by Sharky Laguana Ian Sefchick
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