"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 mind's locked up
In a world that I don't know
The end is coming soon
I think I'll lose control
Staring out my window
And it feels fine
Well, I'm sending all my signals
But I stiffen so I'm long
Said I'm sending all the signals
That I do not have a home
I said my month in up in armour
Say I really wasn't scared
Say my month in up in armour
But I do not have a way
Things are happening
So really do we ever live so fast
There's a concert
Oh but what a fucking blast
My bags are packed
In all rugged up
There's one thing left to say
I'll make you take the fall
Then I'm doin' it my own way
My mind's locked up
In a world that I don't know
The end is coming soon
I think I'll lose control
Are you happy working mornings?
Are you happy working nights?
Are you happy on your time off?
When your high?
Here we go were back again
In the same rut with the same friends
Doin' it like we did the year before
Ya got no money got no car,
Got no woman so there you are
Your empty, sold out and depressed
Well, you can run and you can hide
From the trouble that is deep inside
You're master of your own destiny and fame
Things to do
Got a place to go
Got a cut the line
Got a make the next show
Got a make everything work out alright
What do we have to say for ourselves...
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
In a world that I don't know
The end is coming soon
I think I'll lose control
Staring out my window
And it feels fine
Well, I'm sending all my signals
But I stiffen so I'm long
Said I'm sending all the signals
That I do not have a home
I said my month in up in armour
Say I really wasn't scared
Say my month in up in armour
But I do not have a way
Things are happening
So really do we ever live so fast
There's a concert
Oh but what a fucking blast
My bags are packed
In all rugged up
There's one thing left to say
I'll make you take the fall
Then I'm doin' it my own way
My mind's locked up
In a world that I don't know
The end is coming soon
I think I'll lose control
Are you happy working mornings?
Are you happy working nights?
Are you happy on your time off?
When your high?
Here we go were back again
In the same rut with the same friends
Doin' it like we did the year before
Ya got no money got no car,
Got no woman so there you are
Your empty, sold out and depressed
Well, you can run and you can hide
From the trouble that is deep inside
You're master of your own destiny and fame
Things to do
Got a place to go
Got a cut the line
Got a make the next show
Got a make everything work out alright
What do we have to say for ourselves...
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
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