"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 is where the water becomes shallow
And nothing here is quite as deep
As you hoped it would be
You wish the lines were drawn a little clearer
The tides have turned
This drought will burn
And everything is falling out of place
And drying in the sun
Shriveling and shrinking
The hides are turning brown
Wrinkling and stinging
As you bury yourself
Deep in the dust
Of the sandiest grave you can find
It's a new desert life
To be reborn again
Out of glass and of sand
And you're glimmering and you are clear
This is where
The water is shallow and nothing is as deep
As you hoped it would be
And this drought will burn
And everything's falling, everything's falling
And everything's falling
Out of place
And you're glimmering and you are clear.
And nothing here is quite as deep
As you hoped it would be
You wish the lines were drawn a little clearer
The tides have turned
This drought will burn
And everything is falling out of place
And drying in the sun
Shriveling and shrinking
The hides are turning brown
Wrinkling and stinging
As you bury yourself
Deep in the dust
Of the sandiest grave you can find
It's a new desert life
To be reborn again
Out of glass and of sand
And you're glimmering and you are clear
This is where
The water is shallow and nothing is as deep
As you hoped it would be
And this drought will burn
And everything's falling, everything's falling
And everything's falling
Out of place
And you're glimmering and you are clear.
Lyrics submitted by ScreamingInfidelity
A New Desert Life Lyrics as written by Christopher Andrew Carrabba Chad J. Neptune
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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