"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.
It could have been anyone
Could have been a woman or a man.
Must have swept her away,
Made her forget who I am.
It could have been anyone
Could have slipped me a drug.
Must have been a permanent dose
To make me forget who she was.
It could have been anything
Could have been the time we spent alone.
Maybe too much time together
Maybe too close to the bone.
It could have been anything
A word I might have said
Just a look I mght have given
Just the angel of my head
(I forget)
But we come, we go
We say that we know
But we don't remember and
Don't remind each other, we come, we go.
We say that we know
But we don't remember
No, we don't recognize each other.
It could have been anyone
Any rumor passed around
Someone made her doubt me, made her head for high ground.
It could have been anything
Any gesture or word.
Maybe something I mis-stated, something she misunderstood
(I would)
We come, we go
But we don't remember.
And we don't recognize that maybe this time things might work out right
Maybe this time she might catch my eye.
Maybe something, anything, the ring around her finger.
It could have been anything
Any place that's shattered on the way
It could have been anything, anyone, she'll take another lover.
It could have been anything
Anything, anything.
We come, we go.
But we don't remember.
And we don't recognize each other.
Could have been a woman or a man.
Must have swept her away,
Made her forget who I am.
It could have been anyone
Could have slipped me a drug.
Must have been a permanent dose
To make me forget who she was.
It could have been anything
Could have been the time we spent alone.
Maybe too much time together
Maybe too close to the bone.
It could have been anything
A word I might have said
Just a look I mght have given
Just the angel of my head
(I forget)
But we come, we go
We say that we know
But we don't remember and
Don't remind each other, we come, we go.
We say that we know
But we don't remember
No, we don't recognize each other.
It could have been anyone
Any rumor passed around
Someone made her doubt me, made her head for high ground.
It could have been anything
Any gesture or word.
Maybe something I mis-stated, something she misunderstood
(I would)
We come, we go
But we don't remember.
And we don't recognize that maybe this time things might work out right
Maybe this time she might catch my eye.
Maybe something, anything, the ring around her finger.
It could have been anything
Any place that's shattered on the way
It could have been anything, anyone, she'll take another lover.
It could have been anything
Anything, anything.
We come, we go.
But we don't remember.
And we don't recognize each other.
Lyrics submitted by ShiverForMe
Anything Lyrics as written by Paul Durham
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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