"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.
You walk into a room. Confusion plays a solemn tune.
The Poet steals a thought. His hands are red, the sinner caught.
Cyclical and round. The hollow walls repeat the sound of someone falling down.
Someone falling down who looks like me.
Fingers sharp like knives, knives that thrust to kill.
Put it all away. Your heart has atrophied. (Someone falling down who looks like me)
Fingers sharp like knives, knives that thrust to kill.
Put it all away. Your heart has atrophied (into nothing).
When will we rise above this place?
I'm tired of the fake smiles that you place.
The child's mind a tainted fate.
Anonymous. Anonymous. Anonymous. I am Anonymous.
Unerring mortal soul, at least you'd like to think.
Your palpitating heart, a small and empty thing.
Evil are your words and poison is your stare.
Was is just reaction and did you really care?
When will we rise above this place?
I'm tired of the fake smiles that you place.
The child's mind a tainted fate.
Anonymous. Anonymous. Anonymous. I am Anonymous.
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
The Poet steals a thought. His hands are red, the sinner caught.
Cyclical and round. The hollow walls repeat the sound of someone falling down.
Someone falling down who looks like me.
Fingers sharp like knives, knives that thrust to kill.
Put it all away. Your heart has atrophied. (Someone falling down who looks like me)
Fingers sharp like knives, knives that thrust to kill.
Put it all away. Your heart has atrophied (into nothing).
When will we rise above this place?
I'm tired of the fake smiles that you place.
The child's mind a tainted fate.
Anonymous. Anonymous. Anonymous. I am Anonymous.
Unerring mortal soul, at least you'd like to think.
Your palpitating heart, a small and empty thing.
Evil are your words and poison is your stare.
Was is just reaction and did you really care?
When will we rise above this place?
I'm tired of the fake smiles that you place.
The child's mind a tainted fate.
Anonymous. Anonymous. Anonymous. I am Anonymous.
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
Send your angels down. As I say a prayer for them.
These bastard souls have wronged me (robbed me) once again
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