"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.
Circle of eyes, ball of judgement
Doomed to seek those broken lands
Circles... wheels of dry eyes
Released to embitter the sweetest of secrets
Lead me to those drowning and I shall bring water
You cannot fail, nor can you win, for the fruits of your womb are cursed
Cursed with the blindness of your prey
Circle of sight, ball of judgement lurking,
between everything and everything and nothing and nothing
and in and around and above yet beneath and everything and everything
and nothing and nothing and in and around and above yet beneath
We are your burden, just like you are ours,
yet are you the key to our salvation
Lead me to the hungry and I shall bring air
Circle of eyes, in sight boundless, in greatness immeasurable,
in essence infinite, in judgements pure as death
Lead me to the thirsty and I shall bring earth
You cannot win, nor can you fail, for the fruits of your womb are blessed
Blessed with the blindness of your prey
Now lead me to those who are burnt by sin & I shall bring fire
Doomed to seek those broken lands
Circles... wheels of dry eyes
Released to embitter the sweetest of secrets
Lead me to those drowning and I shall bring water
You cannot fail, nor can you win, for the fruits of your womb are cursed
Cursed with the blindness of your prey
Circle of sight, ball of judgement lurking,
between everything and everything and nothing and nothing
and in and around and above yet beneath and everything and everything
and nothing and nothing and in and around and above yet beneath
We are your burden, just like you are ours,
yet are you the key to our salvation
Lead me to the hungry and I shall bring air
Circle of eyes, in sight boundless, in greatness immeasurable,
in essence infinite, in judgements pure as death
Lead me to the thirsty and I shall bring earth
You cannot win, nor can you fail, for the fruits of your womb are blessed
Blessed with the blindness of your prey
Now lead me to those who are burnt by sin & I shall bring fire
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth
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