"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.
Cool night gave my truth for a lie
Will you be here when I try
I'm not set cannot do it yet
Will you be here when I try
Our wealth breeds emptiness
Another day to compress
My lips are dry you gave me drugs to try
Hold me when I die
The sky has frozen to a wall
We die we all
Will you be here when I try
I'm not set cannot do it yet
Will you be here when I try
Our wealth breeds emptiness
Another day to compress
My lips are dry you gave me drugs to try
Hold me when I die
The sky has frozen to a wall
We die we all
Lyrics submitted by Disposition_987
Wealth Lyrics as written by Jonas Petter Renkse Anders Nystrom
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Unfortunetly I can't make sense of the first line, however...
"Will you be here when I try, I'm not set cannot do it yet" Here the narrator still lacks the determination to kill himself, and wants his friend(or lover, or family member) to be with him when he does.
"Our wealth breeds emptiness" The Narrator is wealthy, and yet feels his life is hollow and without meaning, without purpose.
"My lips are dry you gave me drugs to try" The last four lines are what really lead me to believe that this is a song about suicide. In this line The Narrator has taken whatever drugs he was given(by his friend/lover/family member) to kill himself.
"Hold me when I die The sky has frozen to a wall We die we all" Now the Narrator is finally dying. "The sky has frozen to a wall", this could mean he feels utterly trapted, as if the sky is a glass cieling, constituting a prison from wich there is no escape. In the last line of the song (We die we all) perhaps the Narrator feels when his existence ends, so does everyone's existence.