"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.
this bed has too much room
i might need another cover
these seems to be so much food
and i'm used to empty cupboards
i remember when the days seemed so short
when everything was so right
and now you're gone and my most wanted
the only thing in sight
but then i woke up to nothing
and you seemed more dead than i could ever be
so when you wake up to nothing
i'll leave your life
for the second time
be careful in this cold
this bridge might stay icy
and if i'm not there and dont hear a sound
just like that in the night
this is burning bridge falls down
i remember when the days seemed so short
when everything was so right
and now you're gone and my most wanted
this all ends tonight
right now
then i woke up to nothing
and you seemed more dead than i could ever be
so when you wake up to nothing
i'll leave your life for the second time
its all been said before
but this is my own outlook and my own curse
in years i'll laugh upon looking back
from the best to just dust on a box sealed shut
now blow away
i might need another cover
these seems to be so much food
and i'm used to empty cupboards
i remember when the days seemed so short
when everything was so right
and now you're gone and my most wanted
the only thing in sight
but then i woke up to nothing
and you seemed more dead than i could ever be
so when you wake up to nothing
i'll leave your life
for the second time
be careful in this cold
this bridge might stay icy
and if i'm not there and dont hear a sound
just like that in the night
this is burning bridge falls down
i remember when the days seemed so short
when everything was so right
and now you're gone and my most wanted
this all ends tonight
right now
then i woke up to nothing
and you seemed more dead than i could ever be
so when you wake up to nothing
i'll leave your life for the second time
its all been said before
but this is my own outlook and my own curse
in years i'll laugh upon looking back
from the best to just dust on a box sealed shut
now blow away
Lyrics submitted by skaboslai
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God. People are idiots. No one's commented on this freaking song. It's effing amazing.
I believe it is about a second chance relationship. He has given the girl another chance, but he is not pleased with the way things are. He dreams of bliss, a bed with lots of room plenty of food etc, then he wakes up to his reality. He's leaving the girls life for the second time.
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