"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.
I know you say
Maybe some day
I need never be alone
I know I say
It's the right way
But you'll never be the one
I've been walking alone now
For a long, long time
I don't want to hang out now
With the friends that just aren't mine
Party to party
You've been looking
But your search will never end
You've been hanging
With the wrong crowd
You've got all the right friends
I've been walking alone now
For a long, long time
I don't want to hang out now
With the friends that just aren't mine
I don't want to be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
I don't want to be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
Maybe some day
I need never be alone
I know I say
It's the right way
But you'll never be the one
I've been walking alone now
For a long, long time
I don't want to hang out now
With the friends that just aren't mine
Party to party
You've been looking
But your search will never end
You've been hanging
With the wrong crowd
You've got all the right friends
I've been walking alone now
For a long, long time
I don't want to hang out now
With the friends that just aren't mine
I don't want to be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
I don't want to be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
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I don't really like this song.. it was my least favorite on In Time. "It's the end of the world as we know it" should have had this song's slot.
But I do really like what they're talking about. Sometimes I feel like Michael really gets me almost personaly, you know?
@themopo976 In Time is best of Warner Bros. years. It's the end of the world as we know it was released when they were still on I.R.S.