"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.
inside the labyrinth walls
there lies a tiny child who sleeps alone
and as the daylight falls
the wind becomes so wild across the stone
for I have made her prison be
her every step away from me
and this child I would destroy
if you tried to set her free
so come to me my love
I'll tap into your strength and drain it dry
can never have enough
for you I'd burn the length and breadth of sky
for it's my thoughts that bind me here
it's this love that I most fear
and this child I would destroy
for I hold her pain most dear
no haven for this heart
no shelter for this child in mazes lost
heaven keep us apart
a curse for every mile of ocean crossed
for I must die for what I've done
a twist of fate a desert sun
for I see what I destroy
sweet reflection knife into me
for I see what I destroy
I can see what I've begun
there lies a tiny child who sleeps alone
and as the daylight falls
the wind becomes so wild across the stone
for I have made her prison be
her every step away from me
and this child I would destroy
if you tried to set her free
so come to me my love
I'll tap into your strength and drain it dry
can never have enough
for you I'd burn the length and breadth of sky
for it's my thoughts that bind me here
it's this love that I most fear
and this child I would destroy
for I hold her pain most dear
no haven for this heart
no shelter for this child in mazes lost
heaven keep us apart
a curse for every mile of ocean crossed
for I must die for what I've done
a twist of fate a desert sun
for I see what I destroy
sweet reflection knife into me
for I see what I destroy
I can see what I've begun
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Don't know what Vienna's reason was in writing this song, but there's a definate angry tone to it. The music sounds like a web being spun. This is one pissed off woman, and a dangerous one. Oddly enough, she seems to get caught in her own web. She's so hurt and afraid of anyone touching he "inner child", she's set up a maze of walls to suck that person dry and destroy them before they even get in.