"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.
Burn my body I'm taking up space.
Burn and mix me with plaster or paint.
Burn my body I'm melting and done.
Burn and mix me with ink liar.
A charcoal grey something that won't leak or fade in on rusted bolts tied with barbed wire.
Burn my body I'm lifeless and numb.
Burn and mix me with clay or crayon.
Burn my body I'd like to breath on.
Burn and fix me with someone.
A burnt debt tight wet stain used to print my dissolved my formless mess to touch an ash cast mold made to bend and reform stone stay wax all those inclined to color sad.
Burn my body.
Burn my body.
Burn my body.
Burn and mix me with plaster or paint.
Burn my body I'm melting and done.
Burn and mix me with ink liar.
A charcoal grey something that won't leak or fade in on rusted bolts tied with barbed wire.
Burn my body I'm lifeless and numb.
Burn and mix me with clay or crayon.
Burn my body I'd like to breath on.
Burn and fix me with someone.
A burnt debt tight wet stain used to print my dissolved my formless mess to touch an ash cast mold made to bend and reform stone stay wax all those inclined to color sad.
Burn my body.
Burn my body.
Burn my body.
Lyrics submitted by sinkthepartyline
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These are the official lyrics, sent to me by Joel:
burn my body I’m taking up space burn and mix me with plaster or paint burn my body I’m empty and done burn and mix me with ink or iron
a charred coal gray, something that won’t bleed or fade a line of rusted bolts tied with wire burn my body I’m lifeless and numb burn and mix me with clay or crayon burn my body I’d like to breathe on burn and mix me with someone a burnt dead dye, a wet stain used to print night a soft mud ,a formless mass to touch an ash cast mold, made to bend and reform stone sticked wax, for those inclined to color sad burn my body burn my body burn my body