"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.
In my eyes stagnation surrounds
Blood that life beaten and bound
An act of mercy, a scene pain
There is no difference
It's all in your name
This act of god
Lights of fate brighten my eyes
Fires of hate scourge through the sky
Lost in your darkness, burned by your flame
Forced to believe it's all in your name
This act of god
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
Life conflicts with open decay
Death restricts enlightenment
Love is paradise hate is insane
There is no difference it's all in your name
This act of god
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
This act of god
This act of god
Holy war
Holy war
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
Blood that life beaten and bound
An act of mercy, a scene pain
There is no difference
It's all in your name
This act of god
Lights of fate brighten my eyes
Fires of hate scourge through the sky
Lost in your darkness, burned by your flame
Forced to believe it's all in your name
This act of god
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
Life conflicts with open decay
Death restricts enlightenment
Love is paradise hate is insane
There is no difference it's all in your name
This act of god
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
This act of god
This act of god
Holy war
Holy war
Honesty's heresy in this holy war
Contradiction and affliction hardening my heart
My heart
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Act of God Lyrics as written by Christian Olde Wolbers Burton C. Bell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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