"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.
To tusen grader, svetten pipler frå pannen
Luftå vibrerer mange meter fra bakken
Et knusktørt kadaver henger fast i gjerdet
Gåsehud betyr at det er ting på ferde
Millimeterpresisjon stod det i ingressen
Det er hundre år si eg stolte på tressen
Som et bilde tatt av KGB er manipulert
forteller eg deg at det var ikkje meg
Det var ikkje meg
Du trur du ser ting å så klart
Eg seier ikkje ett ord til før eg får en advokat
Et sekund er som et minutt her inne
Minutt som en time. Time som et døgn
Og du trur du ser ting å så klart
Eg seier ikkje ett ord til før eg får en advokat
Luftå vibrerer mange meter fra bakken
Et knusktørt kadaver henger fast i gjerdet
Gåsehud betyr at det er ting på ferde
Millimeterpresisjon stod det i ingressen
Det er hundre år si eg stolte på tressen
Som et bilde tatt av KGB er manipulert
forteller eg deg at det var ikkje meg
Det var ikkje meg
Du trur du ser ting å så klart
Eg seier ikkje ett ord til før eg får en advokat
Et sekund er som et minutt her inne
Minutt som en time. Time som et døgn
Og du trur du ser ting å så klart
Eg seier ikkje ett ord til før eg får en advokat
Lyrics submitted by PubliusEnigma
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in english
two thousand degrees, the sweat is dribbling out from my forehead the air is vibrating many meters above the ground a dried out carcass is hangin on the fence goosebumps means that there is things goin on
millimeter-precision it was said in the introduction it's been a hundred years since I last trusted the press like a picture of KGB is manipulated i'm telling you it wasn't me it wasn't me
you think you see things, oh so clearly i'm not telling another word until i get a lawyer
a second is like minute in here minute like an hour, an hour like a day and you think you see things, oh so clearly i'm not telling another word until i get a lawyer