"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.
My grandma about eighty,
Left a few years ago.
She's meant so many things in all our lives,
But I'll never know.
And I wonder,
What life would be like,
If she still lived up the block,
And was in our lives.
All three so random.
We said our goodbye's.
We're all connected,
Through my one life.
He became another teenage .
His name was Joel.
He had his music in his heart,
But he left it just at eighteen years old.
And I ponder,
What it would be like,
If he still had his bass in his hand,
And that sweet, sweet smile.
All three so random.
We said our good bye's.
But are connected,
Through my one life.
Time to remember as I look back,
I was so young.
I can still see his glasses and his curly hair.
He was so much fun.
And I wonder,
What life would be like,
Riding with the wind in his hair,
On his favorite bike.
All three so random.
We said our good bye's.
We're all connected,
Through my one life.
All three so random. (all three so random)
We said our good bye's. (we said our good bye's)
But all connected, (but all connected)
Through my one. life (through my one life)
Left a few years ago.
She's meant so many things in all our lives,
But I'll never know.
And I wonder,
What life would be like,
If she still lived up the block,
And was in our lives.
All three so random.
We said our goodbye's.
We're all connected,
Through my one life.
He became another teenage .
His name was Joel.
He had his music in his heart,
But he left it just at eighteen years old.
And I ponder,
What it would be like,
If he still had his bass in his hand,
And that sweet, sweet smile.
All three so random.
We said our good bye's.
But are connected,
Through my one life.
Time to remember as I look back,
I was so young.
I can still see his glasses and his curly hair.
He was so much fun.
And I wonder,
What life would be like,
Riding with the wind in his hair,
On his favorite bike.
All three so random.
We said our good bye's.
We're all connected,
Through my one life.
All three so random. (all three so random)
We said our good bye's. (we said our good bye's)
But all connected, (but all connected)
Through my one. life (through my one life)
Lyrics submitted by 13HourBoy
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