"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.
How'd you know to find me here? Tipped off you tipped toed to the tune of
tapped wires and insider information. This manifested destiny, you think
you can bestow on me. An epidemic with allure that brings intrigue to the
dullest minds.
Fix your broken eyes on me she said. As she draped her arms around my neck.
Her wrist felt like rope as they grazed neck and her fingers like spiders
spun a web my body couldn't shed
And on the eve of battle I'll lay these arms to rest. Have my subordinate
coordinates turned themselves in?
Transmitted and encoded but my encryptions have eroded. Now my whereabouts
are living in the airwaves thanks to me.
Her fingers, like spiders, spun a web my body couldn't shed.
Flee the factory.
tapped wires and insider information. This manifested destiny, you think
you can bestow on me. An epidemic with allure that brings intrigue to the
dullest minds.
Fix your broken eyes on me she said. As she draped her arms around my neck.
Her wrist felt like rope as they grazed neck and her fingers like spiders
spun a web my body couldn't shed
And on the eve of battle I'll lay these arms to rest. Have my subordinate
coordinates turned themselves in?
Transmitted and encoded but my encryptions have eroded. Now my whereabouts
are living in the airwaves thanks to me.
Her fingers, like spiders, spun a web my body couldn't shed.
Flee the factory.
Lyrics submitted by floz2323
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