"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.
[Verse 1]
It's hard to see what you will find
When your heart's dipped in agony
I tried too hard, I was too kind
I saw your face in everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm hating it
It's coming for me
I'm hating it
It's laughing at me
I'm hating it
It's time to realize what is really going down
I'm hating it
It's staring at me
I'm hating it
It's pulling on me
I'm hating it
I can't believe it, take it down, take it down now
[Chorus]
Where are you now?
I tried to get through to you, nothing is saving you
How could I fail?
This life betrayed you, and you are finally free
[Verse 2]
What you see is what you get
I had no time to process it
I think if I just turn around
That this nightmare will come unbound
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I'm hating it
It's coming for me
I'm hating it
It's laughing at me
I'm hating it
It's time to realize what is really going down
I'm hating it
It's staring at me
I'm hating it
It's pulling on me
I'm hating it
I can't believe it, take it down, take it down now
[Chorus]
Where are you now?
I tried to get through to you, nothing is saving you
How could I fail?
This life betrayed you, and you are finally free
It's hard to see what you will find
When your heart's dipped in agony
I tried too hard, I was too kind
I saw your face in everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm hating it
It's coming for me
I'm hating it
It's laughing at me
I'm hating it
It's time to realize what is really going down
I'm hating it
It's staring at me
I'm hating it
It's pulling on me
I'm hating it
I can't believe it, take it down, take it down now
[Chorus]
Where are you now?
I tried to get through to you, nothing is saving you
How could I fail?
This life betrayed you, and you are finally free
[Verse 2]
What you see is what you get
I had no time to process it
I think if I just turn around
That this nightmare will come unbound
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I'm hating it
It's coming for me
I'm hating it
It's laughing at me
I'm hating it
It's time to realize what is really going down
I'm hating it
It's staring at me
I'm hating it
It's pulling on me
I'm hating it
I can't believe it, take it down, take it down now
[Chorus]
Where are you now?
I tried to get through to you, nothing is saving you
How could I fail?
This life betrayed you, and you are finally free
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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