"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.
Roses are red
The seed has been spread
Three can keep a secret
If two of them's dead
Blood on their hands
Cut family bands
Not enough life without been
Given the chance
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you
Monsters been fed
Thousand ahead
It's all in your books but has
Never been said
I color my art
Black for my heart
Running 'til I run no more
I'm back from the start
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you
No I won't fade out with you
Livin' my life love self-destruction
No I won't fade out with you
What is your fear
Invitations are here
Cry a river inside but never
Shed any tears
Me and my saint
You and your taint
Born in the middle
And the story maintain
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on, everybody is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you x2
The seed has been spread
Three can keep a secret
If two of them's dead
Blood on their hands
Cut family bands
Not enough life without been
Given the chance
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you
Monsters been fed
Thousand ahead
It's all in your books but has
Never been said
I color my art
Black for my heart
Running 'til I run no more
I'm back from the start
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you
No I won't fade out with you
Livin' my life love self-destruction
No I won't fade out with you
What is your fear
Invitations are here
Cry a river inside but never
Shed any tears
Me and my saint
You and your taint
Born in the middle
And the story maintain
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on
Are we meant to be angels fallin'
Or do we live to survive? This illusion
Ain't my way when everybody
Is walking out on, everybody is walking out on
On the road to strict perfection
Only the beauty live to tell
This is the source of all the infections
Jaded, but I won't fade out with you x2
Lyrics submitted by Bury-Me-In-Black
A Song for the Outcast Lyrics as written by Johan Blomqvist Andreas Svensson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is a wicked song,,although i am christian of the old church at those years ago,but i liked it and sang along with...yes,life is not enough when never been given the chance..for if you imagine yourself in such a situation that makes you produce such feelings through words,you will find it is great sense,a scream...i dolove this song so much,,if any wanna play it justplay:mi minor,do,re,mi,,this is a sequence of chords,thenone measure for each chord and youare astar..bye