"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.
The lifeless worlds come alive
Gathered here both low and high
Show me sights I dreamt at night
I shall return with the dreaming tide
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
The formless takes the shape I want
I am the decoder of wavelengths
Unobserved it is but nothing
But the potential for everything
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
Planets interact within my head
Universes moved with the will
Anything I imagine occurs
Manifestation is a fact
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
The outside appears to move
But never really does
The mind is in movement
Unknowing, unaware
Earth appears in my head
Does the rules of manifestation apply
At such dense place
In such soulless waste
Travel forth light-years away
Beyond the form of night and day
Kaleidoscopic shapes at play
Colours sparkle in every way
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
The outside appears to move
But never really does
Earth appears in my head
Does the rules of manifestation apply
Gathered here both low and high
Show me sights I dreamt at night
I shall return with the dreaming tide
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
The formless takes the shape I want
I am the decoder of wavelengths
Unobserved it is but nothing
But the potential for everything
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
Planets interact within my head
Universes moved with the will
Anything I imagine occurs
Manifestation is a fact
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
The outside appears to move
But never really does
The mind is in movement
Unknowing, unaware
Earth appears in my head
Does the rules of manifestation apply
At such dense place
In such soulless waste
Travel forth light-years away
Beyond the form of night and day
Kaleidoscopic shapes at play
Colours sparkle in every way
As above, so below
Microcosm is macrocosm
Anything I visualize
Takes place for real
Stray into the silence
Stray into my soul
Stray beyond the shallow entombment
Fate - forms a complex kaleidoscope
The outside appears to move
But never really does
Earth appears in my head
Does the rules of manifestation apply
Lyrics submitted by zaxon~21
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