"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.
let's go undercover like
young lovers should cause
i can kiss you better then
this letter could and you
say at least under these covers
i listen to you and
all this music about you i
hope it find you smiling
again till never begins or
till forver ends
i'll still be lost
in poetics or lost in the mail
can nobody tell you these
guys have a passion for
fashion but are sincere like
a staue and if you have to
choose i am gonna lose i
always do we always do
nostalgia is drunk and
frustration can be gorgeous
but can i keep my mouth shut
cause sometimes
gorgeous can be frustration
when your life is nothing
but a honorable mention
on a radio maybe i'm a
baby but i think it's time to
grow you're everthing i
live for-ever got shorter you
begged me not to go forever
i'll know on a radio better
i'm a quitter than a starry
tortured soul the lips i
kissed now shape songs of
sadness hold me dear
when i'm away and i'll
know when i hear your
name even if i have to sing
it to myself.
young lovers should cause
i can kiss you better then
this letter could and you
say at least under these covers
i listen to you and
all this music about you i
hope it find you smiling
again till never begins or
till forver ends
i'll still be lost
in poetics or lost in the mail
can nobody tell you these
guys have a passion for
fashion but are sincere like
a staue and if you have to
choose i am gonna lose i
always do we always do
nostalgia is drunk and
frustration can be gorgeous
but can i keep my mouth shut
cause sometimes
gorgeous can be frustration
when your life is nothing
but a honorable mention
on a radio maybe i'm a
baby but i think it's time to
grow you're everthing i
live for-ever got shorter you
begged me not to go forever
i'll know on a radio better
i'm a quitter than a starry
tortured soul the lips i
kissed now shape songs of
sadness hold me dear
when i'm away and i'll
know when i hear your
name even if i have to sing
it to myself.
Lyrics submitted by faeriekate
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