"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.
Slipping past position
You know I watch you drive
Watching you painted in chrome Max Factor
And feeling number one
All alone now
I can see you a way to the drone
Radio waves hitting your brain from the phone
I can see
I can see what's on your mind
Cause your never alone
I am the voice inside your head
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
Hello Mr. Racecar driver
You know I'm watching you too
In the trauma room brain dead
Still you went faster
Now your number means nothing
Mr. Nickel-plated candy man
Are you feeling lifeless in aluminium
Splitting decisions to the core
As everyone dances in the fast lane
I can see what's on your mind
Cause your never alone
I am the voice inside your head
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
It's time to throw away all the bad things that you hate
You scared yourself away
Now hate's what you appreciate
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
So go away
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
You know I watch you drive
Watching you painted in chrome Max Factor
And feeling number one
All alone now
I can see you a way to the drone
Radio waves hitting your brain from the phone
I can see
I can see what's on your mind
Cause your never alone
I am the voice inside your head
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
Hello Mr. Racecar driver
You know I'm watching you too
In the trauma room brain dead
Still you went faster
Now your number means nothing
Mr. Nickel-plated candy man
Are you feeling lifeless in aluminium
Splitting decisions to the core
As everyone dances in the fast lane
I can see what's on your mind
Cause your never alone
I am the voice inside your head
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
It's time to throw away all the bad things that you hate
You scared yourself away
Now hate's what you appreciate
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
So go away
That's why people lie
People like me
That's why people lie
People like you
That's why people lie
And the eyes in your radio
I'm the eyes in your radio
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
With all that's fake, there's sense to make
From toys that break
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Eyes-Radio-Lies Lyrics as written by Jay Gordon Amir Derakh
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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You're both correct. Jay said in an interview that when he was a child that he thought their were people in his car radio, which slowly evolved into the idea that, since everyone has a radio in their car, the goverment planted cameras in car radios to spy on people. This idea was mixed with the idea of the artificiality of people...
Jay's a hottie! ;D