"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 have always been the best part of me
With my uncovered eyes
Loose from lenses absorbing light
Your hand is wrapped in mine
The sun set for the last time
Carpet stains from coffee cups
Thrown to stop from hurting so much
Paralyzed I thought I would fail you somehow
And let you down
But you saved me from death
With my uncovered eyes
Loose from lenses absorbing light
Your hand is wrapped in mine
The sun set for the last time
Carpet stains from coffee cups
Thrown to stop from hurting so much
Paralyzed I thought I would fail you somehow
And let you down
But you saved me from death
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I thought it was "You have always seen the best parts of me"
Anyhow, the missing lyrics are (at the end of the song): awake and alive for the first time joining as voices sing together the same song
which I take to mean Heaven rejoicing as another soul is saved.
Actually, doctors can keep your physical body alive for a time. Sometimes they can bring someone back from a flatline. They can fix maladies (like cancer) that would have killed someone, but the long and short of it is, everyone is going to die. There is not a doctor in the world that can keep someone alive indefinitely. God saves the soul. He provides eternal life. He does this through His perfect plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. When accepting Christ as your Savior (believing that He is real, that He appeared on earth in human form to walk in our shoes—to live as we live, battle the same temptations we do, and show us that it is possible to live a life pleasing to God—and that he died, taking full responsibility for mankind's sin, then rose to Heaven to be with the Father until His return), the Bible says all of Heaven breaks out into joyous song in celebration of another life saved.
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