"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.
Now that the love is gone
What's still holding on?
If all that was said was true...
What's still holding you?
If ever, you need someone there
Who's been there for ever
And ever, will waken the dawn
Awaken the dawn for you...
Please don't hesitate to call. please don't hesitate at all [Repeat: x1]
(So many words, which ones do you say?)
Sing maute dingas!
(Everyone who knows and everyone who noticed...
Anyone who noticed anyone who knows it...)
Soul driven! -- Devil
-- Nature
-- Cadillac
-- Jesus
-- Allah
-- Krishna
-- Buddah
-- God
The birth has occurred and the time has begun, it's the end of this age and the
preparations must begin for a new time that takes so much work and will hurt in the
beginning, change always does, and know strength is not something you buy or sell
through aggression and fear. Only love and acceptance of faith will convince you
that you're not alone and exist among friends so have patience...
Don't give in...
Don't give in...
Have patience...
-- It's time
(Is this what you want? Are you happy with what we've
become? Is this the way you want to live?)
...you have a decision to make
Bodywash! Home everybody e-a
Everybody knows, it's very good now... home... home...
What's still holding on?
If all that was said was true...
What's still holding you?
If ever, you need someone there
Who's been there for ever
And ever, will waken the dawn
Awaken the dawn for you...
Please don't hesitate to call. please don't hesitate at all [Repeat: x1]
(So many words, which ones do you say?)
Sing maute dingas!
(Everyone who knows and everyone who noticed...
Anyone who noticed anyone who knows it...)
Soul driven! -- Devil
-- Nature
-- Cadillac
-- Jesus
-- Allah
-- Krishna
-- Buddah
-- God
The birth has occurred and the time has begun, it's the end of this age and the
preparations must begin for a new time that takes so much work and will hurt in the
beginning, change always does, and know strength is not something you buy or sell
through aggression and fear. Only love and acceptance of faith will convince you
that you're not alone and exist among friends so have patience...
Don't give in...
Don't give in...
Have patience...
-- It's time
(Is this what you want? Are you happy with what we've
become? Is this the way you want to live?)
...you have a decision to make
Bodywash! Home everybody e-a
Everybody knows, it's very good now... home... home...
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