"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.
That which is my cosmos is what I've starved for oh so long
My inner passion and bitter demise
Those shores I dream of, to capture time in a dance
To encircle myself in a myriad of raining worlds
Search your light in my darkness, for my darkness is your light
And that which is opposite, is opposite to itself
Conceive your visionary evil, and I will grant you the good
Which one is ours among these plains surrounding us?
Create your dimension and name yourself explorer
You are not and will never be, my depraved child of sin
We'd never know anything in this funerary spring
And so sad to say, we'd never know what does it have to mean
So let us reign over the higher art and supreme beings
Me, myself, and you, my inner solitary guard
With mind I brought clear forth your sight
We'd start our quest in these marble bloodred halls
Internal and external, what kind of reality will we see?
What kind of existence will we fantasize for us this time?
Our sweetly blackened paragon slides into firstborn chaos
This is the end of a beginning - and the beginning for an end
Pitifully we've come to know what the knowledge is
So blow down the candle and now just disappear
My inner passion and bitter demise
Those shores I dream of, to capture time in a dance
To encircle myself in a myriad of raining worlds
Search your light in my darkness, for my darkness is your light
And that which is opposite, is opposite to itself
Conceive your visionary evil, and I will grant you the good
Which one is ours among these plains surrounding us?
Create your dimension and name yourself explorer
You are not and will never be, my depraved child of sin
We'd never know anything in this funerary spring
And so sad to say, we'd never know what does it have to mean
So let us reign over the higher art and supreme beings
Me, myself, and you, my inner solitary guard
With mind I brought clear forth your sight
We'd start our quest in these marble bloodred halls
Internal and external, what kind of reality will we see?
What kind of existence will we fantasize for us this time?
Our sweetly blackened paragon slides into firstborn chaos
This is the end of a beginning - and the beginning for an end
Pitifully we've come to know what the knowledge is
So blow down the candle and now just disappear
Quaerite Lux In Tenebris (exploring The External Worlds) song meanings
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