"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 didn't die a natural death.
My life was stolen from me, before my first natural breath.
Casualty of circumstance.
Someone make a decision for me.
They never gave me a chance.
Chorus:
Where's that first birthday I hoped for?
The candle I'd blow out.
No one will ever hear me laugh or ever see me smile.
I would've make my parents proud.
They weren't much more than children themselves.
I felt her honest reasons, though she said it would further her health.
I'm on the inside looking out. Please don't just give up, at least give me to someone else.
(Chorus)
Adoption, abortion, am I responsible for your action?
Life versus death, they make the choice, they let me go.
Disregard human value. What if your parents did this to you?
Victim of circumstance, this is our last dance.
Eleven weeks old today.
My mother made a pro-choice, a purchase I would have to pay.
They found a price on my life.
Consider this my farewell. My good bye.
My life was stolen from me, before my first natural breath.
Casualty of circumstance.
Someone make a decision for me.
They never gave me a chance.
Chorus:
Where's that first birthday I hoped for?
The candle I'd blow out.
No one will ever hear me laugh or ever see me smile.
I would've make my parents proud.
They weren't much more than children themselves.
I felt her honest reasons, though she said it would further her health.
I'm on the inside looking out. Please don't just give up, at least give me to someone else.
(Chorus)
Adoption, abortion, am I responsible for your action?
Life versus death, they make the choice, they let me go.
Disregard human value. What if your parents did this to you?
Victim of circumstance, this is our last dance.
Eleven weeks old today.
My mother made a pro-choice, a purchase I would have to pay.
They found a price on my life.
Consider this my farewell. My good bye.
Lyrics submitted by SnickerGlish
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brain.damage, (nailed the name there) you can't even bring up incest or rape or health issues. only 7% of abortions are because of those reasons. 6% because of health issues, and 1% - ONE FUCKING PERCENT - because of rape AND incest. out of the 47 million abortions a year, only SEVEN PERCENT are because of those. the other 93%? because the children are some kind of inconvenience.
if you don't believe me, i don't give a shit. i'm just putting these facts out there before some other ignorant person uses it as an argument.
A pro-life, anti-abortion song.
awsome song, this one goes out to all you kids that never made it out =) i love you guys and i will see you in heaven!
Yeah, it is a rad song. Lots of meaning. But isn't it called "In The Line Of Fire" ? Thanks for putting up the lyrics bro.
No one could have put it better than these guys. A truely amazing work of art. Dogwood has a wonderful message. So does Thrice, check em out...
wow a conservative band, ill make a mental note not to listen to them.
I haven't heard this song...where can I get it...or in wich cd is it?
pro-choice 4 eva dont listen to conservative propaganda
prochoice!! this is conservative bullshit propaganda women should have the right to choose and no one should be able to tell them what to do with their bodies.
oh and also is this a dogwood song or a dashboard song cuz its under both names, but to make it clear this song is conservative bullshit and I dont see why a christian band would be conservative when coservatives: do not help poor out at all, lower taxes which help upper class, and want to eliminate gun control. If you guys are a christian band maybe you should look at these issues then decided which side you'll be on. The way a true christian should believe is certainly more liberal than concervative and this song is compete bs propaganda.
A baby is not part of a woman's body (referring to your last comment) it is a living, breathing human, although people don't recognize it as one. And gun control should be eliminated. what will we do with guns? kill people? all good Christians should totally kill people. that makes sense.