"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.
I hear them calling to me from another world
Look at the place you live they say
Oh won't you join us in a world that's without pain?
I cannot listen without longing
To let go of my burdens sounds so sweet
Reasons to hold on there are many -
This i must remember when the sirens call to me
I hear them calling from beyond
>From beyond oh no no...
Sometimes i feel i can't go on
I hear them calling from beyond
>From beyond oh no no...
Must find the strength to carry on
I need you with me
When i awake the siren still resonates
In sadness from unremembered dreams
And in the prison of this longing
I'm waiting for parole, waiting to be free
I know that my time here has not yet come
There's still so much that's left to do and say
I know that my work here is not done
But I'll go to them someday
Look at the place you live they say
Oh won't you join us in a world that's without pain?
I cannot listen without longing
To let go of my burdens sounds so sweet
Reasons to hold on there are many -
This i must remember when the sirens call to me
I hear them calling from beyond
>From beyond oh no no...
Sometimes i feel i can't go on
I hear them calling from beyond
>From beyond oh no no...
Must find the strength to carry on
I need you with me
When i awake the siren still resonates
In sadness from unremembered dreams
And in the prison of this longing
I'm waiting for parole, waiting to be free
I know that my time here has not yet come
There's still so much that's left to do and say
I know that my work here is not done
But I'll go to them someday
Lyrics submitted by CAffers
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too me this describes me, i feel so shitty at the end of the day, but if i listen to the right CD at the right time ill be in the greatest mood for the rest of the day, and when he says
"I hear them calling from beyond
hes simply saying i need your help so ill put this CD on and ill here you calling from beyond and your voice will make it all better and i can go on.
or its about traveling on the road and hes saying "i hear them calling from beyond" saying i have too continue these guys are paying good money too see us, we cant just stop the tour right now, that wouldn't be right!