"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.
All hail the unseen one who dances in the shadows.
Hidden from everyone in a veil of joyousness.
Bathing in the darkness exuding from the very bowels of mankind.
With such longanimity had he tolerated the atrocity known as man.
And when the world finally comes to an end,
He'll simply laugh and smile for he would take such comfort,
In knowing that there would be no tomorrow.
He'd take such comfort in knowing we will never see another day.
And for their degeneration,
Mankind will finally know what it means to suffer.
Understand that he is hopeless.
He is bitter, and he is filled with great spite.
From witnessing first hand man's decline,
He is simply hopeless, he is bitter and filled with great spite.
And when the world finally comes to an end,
He'll simply laugh and smile for he would take such comfort,
In knowing that there would be no tomorrow.
Here's bidding farewell to a loathsome world
Hidden from everyone in a veil of joyousness.
Bathing in the darkness exuding from the very bowels of mankind.
With such longanimity had he tolerated the atrocity known as man.
And when the world finally comes to an end,
He'll simply laugh and smile for he would take such comfort,
In knowing that there would be no tomorrow.
He'd take such comfort in knowing we will never see another day.
And for their degeneration,
Mankind will finally know what it means to suffer.
Understand that he is hopeless.
He is bitter, and he is filled with great spite.
From witnessing first hand man's decline,
He is simply hopeless, he is bitter and filled with great spite.
And when the world finally comes to an end,
He'll simply laugh and smile for he would take such comfort,
In knowing that there would be no tomorrow.
Here's bidding farewell to a loathsome world
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