"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.
The sky turns black
We're all a bunch of ghouls
Dreams are reality
Just the same
Just another crucifixtion
one more cross nailed to the ground
The beginning of the end
has just begun
Lights getting dark
The real pain's yet to come
Call out the magic words
Forever change to the flame
another thing turned to ashes
Blessed by the dark
When the candle fades
The pain closing in
When the sun turns black
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
Body with empty souls
cryin' to be free
But this is just the beginning
of the end
The seance is catching up with you
Tortured by the past once again
The time stopped
But nothing's forever
What comes after death?
It never ends
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You release your blood and fade away
You release your blood and fade away
You release your blood and fade away
We're all a bunch of ghouls
Dreams are reality
Just the same
Just another crucifixtion
one more cross nailed to the ground
The beginning of the end
has just begun
Lights getting dark
The real pain's yet to come
Call out the magic words
Forever change to the flame
another thing turned to ashes
Blessed by the dark
When the candle fades
The pain closing in
When the sun turns black
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
Body with empty souls
cryin' to be free
But this is just the beginning
of the end
The seance is catching up with you
Tortured by the past once again
The time stopped
But nothing's forever
What comes after death?
It never ends
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You take your life and dwell in emptiness
Running away from the pain
You release your blood and fade away
The candle light
You release your blood and fade away
You release your blood and fade away
You release your blood and fade away
Lyrics submitted by Disposition_987
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