"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.
He sits among the rest, buried in his seat.
The clatter of the crowd is drowning out his speech.
He turns to look at us, a mirror burned in deep.
He wonders who you are, you wonder what he means.
We are the matched and numbered ones.
We have been placed in all their codes.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
She makes the driver blush with pains of tongues and knees.
She opens up the car leaving air to breathe.
Tthe moments all messed up with lanes that bleed in sheets
That cover up our tracks and lead us to her keep.
We are the matched and numbered ones who live in constant disrepair.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
Here i'm stressing over fallen angels with cause to cover.
We are the matched and numbered ones who live in constant disrepair.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
The clatter of the crowd is drowning out his speech.
He turns to look at us, a mirror burned in deep.
He wonders who you are, you wonder what he means.
We are the matched and numbered ones.
We have been placed in all their codes.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
She makes the driver blush with pains of tongues and knees.
She opens up the car leaving air to breathe.
Tthe moments all messed up with lanes that bleed in sheets
That cover up our tracks and lead us to her keep.
We are the matched and numbered ones who live in constant disrepair.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
Here i'm stressing over fallen angels with cause to cover.
We are the matched and numbered ones who live in constant disrepair.
You may be blessed by your own,
You may be blessed by your own ghost.
Lyrics submitted by imapunxlvr
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