"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.
Nothing I do makes much sense
Say you don't really get me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Nothing I want means a lot
Say you don't understand me like before
I'm not sure if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Nothing I think has a point
Say you don't quite believe me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Gets hard to guess the best way through
The thing to do if none of this is true
I wish I knew how to undo
The doubt I hide inside
I grew in you
The knot I hide inside I tied in you,
Nothing I am shows the way
Say you don't seem to know me like before
I'm not sure if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
No nothing I do makes much sense
Say you don't really get me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Gets hard to guess the best way through
The thing to do if none of this is true
I wish I knew how to undo
The knot I tied in you,
When more or less the yes and no
Is all for show it isn't really so,
Look high and low where did we go?
You moved too fast or maybe I just moved too slow?
There's so much noise,
All the signal seems to fade away
Too much noise
Or could be this is how it always sounds
With nothing left?
Say you don't really get me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Nothing I want means a lot
Say you don't understand me like before
I'm not sure if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Nothing I think has a point
Say you don't quite believe me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Gets hard to guess the best way through
The thing to do if none of this is true
I wish I knew how to undo
The doubt I hide inside
I grew in you
The knot I hide inside I tied in you,
Nothing I am shows the way
Say you don't seem to know me like before
I'm not sure if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
No nothing I do makes much sense
Say you don't really get me anymore
I wonder if you ever did, if you ever did at all?
Gets hard to guess the best way through
The thing to do if none of this is true
I wish I knew how to undo
The knot I tied in you,
When more or less the yes and no
Is all for show it isn't really so,
Look high and low where did we go?
You moved too fast or maybe I just moved too slow?
There's so much noise,
All the signal seems to fade away
Too much noise
Or could be this is how it always sounds
With nothing left?
Lyrics submitted by Twilightseer, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Signal to Noise Lyrics as written by Perry Bamonte Jason Toop Cooper
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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