"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.
Let's all go to the underground
Some kind of social lost and found
Check all your baggage at the gate
Makin' sense at six but I won't by eight
Pulled like a magnet to the door
The faces are new but you've seen them before
Spit out the truth that we're scared to say
That's why we come here anyway
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
I like to live where the lights are low
A couple shots and we're feelin' straight
We shoot it up 'cause I hate to wait
We're talkin' shit and we talk it loud
The seedy kids are my favorite crowd
Well write your number down for me
To end up on the floor
I guess it ain't meant to be
What's her name?
Well I'm scared to say
That's why I came here anyway
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
What's my game?
You don't want to know
I took too much and I'm feelin' low
Set me free 'cause I'm on my knees
It's such a bitch you're so hard to please
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
Some kind of social lost and found
Check all your baggage at the gate
Makin' sense at six but I won't by eight
Pulled like a magnet to the door
The faces are new but you've seen them before
Spit out the truth that we're scared to say
That's why we come here anyway
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
I like to live where the lights are low
A couple shots and we're feelin' straight
We shoot it up 'cause I hate to wait
We're talkin' shit and we talk it loud
The seedy kids are my favorite crowd
Well write your number down for me
To end up on the floor
I guess it ain't meant to be
What's her name?
Well I'm scared to say
That's why I came here anyway
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
What's my game?
You don't want to know
I took too much and I'm feelin' low
Set me free 'cause I'm on my knees
It's such a bitch you're so hard to please
I like to live where the lights are low
Sometimes I feel there's nowhere to go
Set you alight and I'll set you free
You never meant that much to me
Lyrics submitted by carboncentric
Lights Are Low Lyrics as written by Jade Uriah Lemons Daniel Blaine Grady
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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