"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.
Hello the world
Yeah, yeah, ho
噛みつくぜ I'll bite you よそ見してんなよ
Who the fuck saying that 俺の牙がもう無ぇだと?
守るべき物の為なら I can be back at zero
何度でも like a wolf 這い上がってやるさ
Yeah
I'm stravin'
I'm stravin'
Say sorry, yeah
I'm sorry, yeah
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love, yeah
Yeah, oh
入ってるよ
One, two, one, two, what is it?
見てみろよ look around you
なんか気付かねーか?
馬鹿正直に生きる奴が馬鹿みてんだ
他所行きのプライドなんて no meaning what so ever
んなもん throw that away ドブに捨てちまえばいい
聞こえるか? I'm screamin' out from 東京
傷だらけで peace and love 唄ってるぜ rock on
愛も欲も情も この際なんもかんも全部
Yeah, I'ma gonna break 'em all ブった斬ってやるさ
This is the way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love, yeah
Woh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, ho
噛みつくぜ I'll bite you よそ見してんなよ
Who the fuck saying that 俺の牙がもう無ぇだと?
守るべき物の為なら I can be back at zero
何度でも like a wolf 這い上がってやるさ
Yeah
I'm stravin'
I'm stravin'
Say sorry, yeah
I'm sorry, yeah
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love
I'm the wolf
Survivin' with love, yeah
Yeah, oh
入ってるよ
One, two, one, two, what is it?
見てみろよ look around you
なんか気付かねーか?
馬鹿正直に生きる奴が馬鹿みてんだ
他所行きのプライドなんて no meaning what so ever
んなもん throw that away ドブに捨てちまえばいい
聞こえるか? I'm screamin' out from 東京
傷だらけで peace and love 唄ってるぜ rock on
愛も欲も情も この際なんもかんも全部
Yeah, I'ma gonna break 'em all ブった斬ってやるさ
This is the way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love
The way a wolf survives with love, yeah
Woh, yeah
Lyrics submitted by MidoriAkita
Survive Lyrics as written by Miyavi
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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