"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.
Games we don't want to play
Same winner everyday
Kill for the second best
Feel no more, feel no less
We have our minutes cut
We lose our feelings but
That's what the movies show
This is where stories go
Stars we don't want to reach
Scars we don't want to stitch
Go where we haven't been
Fly away, time machine
Cloud we will chase him out
Crowds, we will face them down
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space
Ground we don't want to feel
Found what they didn't steal
Time, we were really lost
Bridges burnt, fingers crossed
We, shall we ever be free
With no guarantee
Life on another plane
Same before, same again
Go where you want to go
So no one ever knows
Only what we decide
Is it gone
Has it died
Dry every tear in my eye
You can tell me why
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer Space, outer space
Outer space is where we get together
And this place we're meant to be
Stars are dancing and the time is fading
Dead forever,
You and me,
You and me
Racing stars and common moons are planets
In the cosmos, we are free
There's no atmosphere
And no obsessions
It'll always be
It'll always be
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer Space, outer space
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space
Same winner everyday
Kill for the second best
Feel no more, feel no less
We have our minutes cut
We lose our feelings but
That's what the movies show
This is where stories go
Stars we don't want to reach
Scars we don't want to stitch
Go where we haven't been
Fly away, time machine
Cloud we will chase him out
Crowds, we will face them down
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space
Ground we don't want to feel
Found what they didn't steal
Time, we were really lost
Bridges burnt, fingers crossed
We, shall we ever be free
With no guarantee
Life on another plane
Same before, same again
Go where you want to go
So no one ever knows
Only what we decide
Is it gone
Has it died
Dry every tear in my eye
You can tell me why
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer Space, outer space
Outer space is where we get together
And this place we're meant to be
Stars are dancing and the time is fading
Dead forever,
You and me,
You and me
Racing stars and common moons are planets
In the cosmos, we are free
There's no atmosphere
And no obsessions
It'll always be
It'll always be
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer Space, outer space
Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space
Lyrics submitted by deviationer, edited by BellaZ
Cosmos (Outer Space) Lyrics as written by Sergey Galoyan Claire Elizabeth Guy
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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