"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.
My darling baby, now let's go to bed
But darling sounds like beloved instead
Mummy ignores the lurking dread
Sweet child of hers has twins in her head
Twins in her head, twins in her head, "I have twins in my head"
The bed was tucked, there's no one around
Wish I could move but my limbs are bound
The night is so thick and sweet mommy's gone
Afraid of the dark and the voices come
The voices come (and my mommy's gone)
Dollies and puppets dance on the shelf
Night-night me, night-night myself
Pictures, voices and thoughts in whirls
Girlies kissing other girls and other girls
Silent moans: "O mommy please help me!
Kiss her, no, kill her, can't help this uneasy
Dolly mixture of feeling and shadows
Anger and joy, tension and sorrow
And everything blows
Gingerbread bogeymen, void wedding dresses
Dance in the trees giving cold kisses
Legion of shades walk by the window
While winds blow the cries of weeping willows
She's the one to know
Through the moonlit forest pale feet ran fast
Trying to escape from herself aghast
The very last step was made to the river
Where lily-white dresses (will) float forever
For ever and ever
Everything hastened in the fake roundabout
Poor little girl, she found no way out
With lily white hands
The dead dollies took her
And tied her to dreams for ever and ever
Gemini Girly came and said to me
"Don't you be worried, I lie with dollies
And they look after me
Just like sweet mommy
Used to care for me
Used to care for me"
And every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Sweet Gemini Girly cries, Gemini Girly dies, Gemini Girly lies
Her lily white dress shines
Deep, deep down inside; deep, deep down inside
The river and mind, the river and my mind
Down inside, river and my mind
The river and . . . my mind
But darling sounds like beloved instead
Mummy ignores the lurking dread
Sweet child of hers has twins in her head
Twins in her head, twins in her head, "I have twins in my head"
The bed was tucked, there's no one around
Wish I could move but my limbs are bound
The night is so thick and sweet mommy's gone
Afraid of the dark and the voices come
The voices come (and my mommy's gone)
Dollies and puppets dance on the shelf
Night-night me, night-night myself
Pictures, voices and thoughts in whirls
Girlies kissing other girls and other girls
Silent moans: "O mommy please help me!
Kiss her, no, kill her, can't help this uneasy
Dolly mixture of feeling and shadows
Anger and joy, tension and sorrow
And everything blows
Gingerbread bogeymen, void wedding dresses
Dance in the trees giving cold kisses
Legion of shades walk by the window
While winds blow the cries of weeping willows
She's the one to know
Through the moonlit forest pale feet ran fast
Trying to escape from herself aghast
The very last step was made to the river
Where lily-white dresses (will) float forever
For ever and ever
Everything hastened in the fake roundabout
Poor little girl, she found no way out
With lily white hands
The dead dollies took her
And tied her to dreams for ever and ever
Gemini Girly came and said to me
"Don't you be worried, I lie with dollies
And they look after me
Just like sweet mommy
Used to care for me
Used to care for me"
And every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Sweet Gemini Girly cries, Gemini Girly dies, Gemini Girly lies
Her lily white dress shines
Deep, deep down inside; deep, deep down inside
The river and mind, the river and my mind
Down inside, river and my mind
The river and . . . my mind
Lyrics submitted by zweiundzwei, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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