"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.
Is this everything, I've dreamed of so much more
Between the end and where we lie
Here all hopes and dreams are scavenged from the floor
And fed into machines that feed on vacant eyes
All of my dreams, always find me
Far beyond these fake fluorescent skies
I know there must be something more, if I could only find the door
Then I could free myself and see the world outside where
Daylight breaks on you and shines into the
Grey that sleeps beneath your skull
Daylight breaks on you burns away the
Grey that suffocates your soul
For now I hold a key, and though I may be lost
I know that I will find my way
I search endlessly but every time I've thought
That I was near the smoke and mirrors lead me astray
See the pit boss, steal each tick tock
Time it seems will suffer at our hands
I look for exits in the haze, the dense electric twilit maze
I've heard that there is one that leads to sunlit lands where
Daylight, they tell me that it's just a myth
Daylight, they tell me that it can't exist
They try to betray me with a kiss
They might never know just what they've missed as
Daylight pours fire into my gray eyes
Pour grace into my gray life
Breaks in and lights the way
I can't live without the day
Between the end and where we lie
Here all hopes and dreams are scavenged from the floor
And fed into machines that feed on vacant eyes
All of my dreams, always find me
Far beyond these fake fluorescent skies
I know there must be something more, if I could only find the door
Then I could free myself and see the world outside where
Daylight breaks on you and shines into the
Grey that sleeps beneath your skull
Daylight breaks on you burns away the
Grey that suffocates your soul
For now I hold a key, and though I may be lost
I know that I will find my way
I search endlessly but every time I've thought
That I was near the smoke and mirrors lead me astray
See the pit boss, steal each tick tock
Time it seems will suffer at our hands
I look for exits in the haze, the dense electric twilit maze
I've heard that there is one that leads to sunlit lands where
Daylight, they tell me that it's just a myth
Daylight, they tell me that it can't exist
They try to betray me with a kiss
They might never know just what they've missed as
Daylight pours fire into my gray eyes
Pour grace into my gray life
Breaks in and lights the way
I can't live without the day
Lyrics submitted by pdpdrummer88
Between the End and Where We Lie Lyrics as written by Edward Carrington Breckenridge Dustin Michael Kensrue
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Dustin explains it outright in the liner notes about the "sunlit lands" reference
there is also another evident reference, found in the verse:
daylight, they tell me that it’s just a myth and they try to betray me with a kiss daylight, they tell me that it can’t exist
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so ya, bam.
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i guess Thrice likes C.S. Lewis or something?
@The Resonator I guess so... I remember an interview where Dustin said that a lot of Vheissu songs were related to CS Lewis...<br />