"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.
Sometimes I feel so out of time and place, trapped in a maze
As if I was lost in someone else's life...
The values I should keep in high regard don't mean a thing to me
Do you ever feel a need to go back in time? A dream of mine...
To travel far away and one day steal back my life
In the end all I can do is to learn I live in a dreamland
This time was not made for me,
I have nowhere to land, no place to rest,
Like a bird, without a nest, I'm gliding
Under the clouds, forevermore
How much suffocated anxiety can be held within?
I was found guilty to a crime against myself.
No need to hear the words again,
I live and I'd die for my dreamland
This time was not made for me,
I have nowhere to land, no place to rest,
Like a bird, without a nest, I'm gliding
Under the clouds, forevermore
I'll never have a chance, I can't understand
I'm a misplaced man
How could this backward land
Learn to understand my dance
What it's like, when every single smile hurts...
I have never felt like home here
Always missing something
People aren't connecting
Am I a misplaced soul?
I live in a perfect Hell, I try finding my wishing well
when I drop my last tear, I have accepted this life
A true saint, that I am not, you have never seen me
'Cause I have always been there, standing by your side
I'll never have a chance, I can't understand
I'm a misplaced man
How could this backward land
Learn to understand my dance
what it's like, when
Every single moment pains me...
Never felt like home here
I am missing something
My soul's in a wrong shell
As if I was lost in someone else's life...
The values I should keep in high regard don't mean a thing to me
Do you ever feel a need to go back in time? A dream of mine...
To travel far away and one day steal back my life
In the end all I can do is to learn I live in a dreamland
This time was not made for me,
I have nowhere to land, no place to rest,
Like a bird, without a nest, I'm gliding
Under the clouds, forevermore
How much suffocated anxiety can be held within?
I was found guilty to a crime against myself.
No need to hear the words again,
I live and I'd die for my dreamland
This time was not made for me,
I have nowhere to land, no place to rest,
Like a bird, without a nest, I'm gliding
Under the clouds, forevermore
I'll never have a chance, I can't understand
I'm a misplaced man
How could this backward land
Learn to understand my dance
What it's like, when every single smile hurts...
I have never felt like home here
Always missing something
People aren't connecting
Am I a misplaced soul?
I live in a perfect Hell, I try finding my wishing well
when I drop my last tear, I have accepted this life
A true saint, that I am not, you have never seen me
'Cause I have always been there, standing by your side
I'll never have a chance, I can't understand
I'm a misplaced man
How could this backward land
Learn to understand my dance
what it's like, when
Every single moment pains me...
Never felt like home here
I am missing something
My soul's in a wrong shell
Lyrics submitted by GGCrono4
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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That's odd observation, IMHO song is about a guy, who is tired of the dull and grey world he lives in (aren't we all at some point?), or at least thinks life has got nothing interesting to offer him and dreams full day of his fantasy world. "The values I should keep in high regard don't mean a thing to me" Referring to the cycle of average person's life: education, army, job, family. Making money to consume, to buy crap you don't actually need (reminds me of Fight Club). So when he doesn't give a dangling sh!te about it he becomes parted from the society, misfit etc. "A bird without a nest".
Or it is simply about suicide: "I was found guilty to a crime against myself." Don't bash me just because nothing else comes to mind this second.