"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.
you're head is a hearse
that carries all of the worse you've sworn
you've buried so you will crash it
you pray for amnesia when you hit
can you hear the coffin opening
from the driver's seat
and can you see the ghost swim
through the dash, where he sings of your past
his words flow like blood that wont clot
a stream no tourniquet can stop
and they circle like vultures
this is what it feels like to remember
in a hospital room, you've come to
and still remember being pulled from the wreackage
you look around and see all the nurses and surgeons
have turned into hearses and coffins
can you hear the coffin opening
from beneathe the sheets
and can you see the ghost swim
thrugh youre injuries
how he sings of your memories
his words flow like blood that wont clot
a stream no tourniquet can stop
and they circle like vultures
this is what it feels like to remember for you
that carries all of the worse you've sworn
you've buried so you will crash it
you pray for amnesia when you hit
can you hear the coffin opening
from the driver's seat
and can you see the ghost swim
through the dash, where he sings of your past
his words flow like blood that wont clot
a stream no tourniquet can stop
and they circle like vultures
this is what it feels like to remember
in a hospital room, you've come to
and still remember being pulled from the wreackage
you look around and see all the nurses and surgeons
have turned into hearses and coffins
can you hear the coffin opening
from beneathe the sheets
and can you see the ghost swim
thrugh youre injuries
how he sings of your memories
his words flow like blood that wont clot
a stream no tourniquet can stop
and they circle like vultures
this is what it feels like to remember for you
Lyrics submitted by coffinboy
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i meant "this song" I SUCK