"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.
He lit the fire in my heart,
And with the same flame burned my world down stark.
I gave him the whole entire thing.
At first he gently held it,
And then got bored and started carving.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix too well
Love flows like water;
I burn like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
A tiny pin prick came little spurts of blood.
A little trickle long enough can surely cause the flood.
But last night he sped the process.
He sliced it open then walked away and cut his losses.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix to well
Love flows like water;
I slip like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
So beautiful and capable of bringing me good news.
Now the enemy with knives and pins looking to bruise.
You fell out as quickly as you fell in.
You never fell at all.
I was just kidding.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix to well
Love flows like water;
I burn like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
And with the same flame burned my world down stark.
I gave him the whole entire thing.
At first he gently held it,
And then got bored and started carving.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix too well
Love flows like water;
I burn like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
A tiny pin prick came little spurts of blood.
A little trickle long enough can surely cause the flood.
But last night he sped the process.
He sliced it open then walked away and cut his losses.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix to well
Love flows like water;
I slip like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
So beautiful and capable of bringing me good news.
Now the enemy with knives and pins looking to bruise.
You fell out as quickly as you fell in.
You never fell at all.
I was just kidding.
Love, all one needs,
What I need is to try healing.
And then make sure I never fall back into that feeling.
Love and I, to one another never truly loyal.
We don't mix to well
Love flows like water;
I burn like oil.
And I look around and there's all this water but none that I should drink.
I notice now that I am oil and oil is all that I should think.
Lyrics submitted by Maliejandra
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eh, I don't think these are the right lyrics, most of it's right but at some parts (if you read along with the song) it sounds different. Maybe it's just me. And there's a bit of the song missing... I'd send in the real lyrics but I don't know em.