"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.
If I ran away today
Will you pull me back tomorrow?
Took some time to arrange
With trust, space will follow
Out to find the things you need
Your connections hard to swallow
Still things you tell me when
Your eyes track me down, keepin' you hollow
Throat starts to drain
I've done it way too many times to go away
Gone in a state, by my water
Can you bring it back to me
Will you follow?
And how'd you get away
If I ran away today
Will you pull me back tomorrow?
Took some time to arrange
Your connections hard to swallow
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
It's your needs on my brain
Smack me out, Our eyes exchange
To have the strength to stake my claim
Have you placed it?
I can't taste it
Will I waste it?
Can't trace it
Time to face it
Now gonna go away
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
It's your needs on my brain
Smack me out, Move on with change
To have the strength to stake my claim
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
To have the strength to stake my claim
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
To have the strength to stake my claim
Will you pull me back tomorrow?
Took some time to arrange
With trust, space will follow
Out to find the things you need
Your connections hard to swallow
Still things you tell me when
Your eyes track me down, keepin' you hollow
Throat starts to drain
I've done it way too many times to go away
Gone in a state, by my water
Can you bring it back to me
Will you follow?
And how'd you get away
If I ran away today
Will you pull me back tomorrow?
Took some time to arrange
Your connections hard to swallow
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
It's your needs on my brain
Smack me out, Our eyes exchange
To have the strength to stake my claim
Have you placed it?
I can't taste it
Will I waste it?
Can't trace it
Time to face it
Now gonna go away
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
It's your needs on my brain
Smack me out, Move on with change
To have the strength to stake my claim
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
To have the strength to stake my claim
I know you're somewhere, I'm Insane
To have the strength to stake my claim
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I'm Insane Lyrics as written by Joseph Donald Mascis Jr
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