"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.
Mould me, human clay
Brokencutaway
Using me puppet strings
still born (I'm still born), without wings
broken wings
I've ruptured, the fragile sea
taken a life you steal
Embryoand always too (always too)
when building blocks, fall down on you
without wings your without wings
why wont you find the reasons why
your without wings your without wings
smashing all your precious things
your ruining (x4) me
I don't bleed without you
Trauma, my mistake
ending are we made to break
new threshold the more you wait
I'm breathing under water (x7)
without wings your without wings
why wont you find the reasons why
your without wings your without wings
smashing all your precious things
your ruining (x4) me
I don't bleed without you
precious things
without wings
if I'm dreaming your awake is it real
inside me sickness mine to take
yours to feel
u cocoon inside your own
temperate stain
breathing new life into my lungs
your not breathing
your without your without wings you left me here
you precious things your precious things you broken, broken
Brokencutaway
Using me puppet strings
still born (I'm still born), without wings
broken wings
I've ruptured, the fragile sea
taken a life you steal
Embryoand always too (always too)
when building blocks, fall down on you
without wings your without wings
why wont you find the reasons why
your without wings your without wings
smashing all your precious things
your ruining (x4) me
I don't bleed without you
Trauma, my mistake
ending are we made to break
new threshold the more you wait
I'm breathing under water (x7)
without wings your without wings
why wont you find the reasons why
your without wings your without wings
smashing all your precious things
your ruining (x4) me
I don't bleed without you
precious things
without wings
if I'm dreaming your awake is it real
inside me sickness mine to take
yours to feel
u cocoon inside your own
temperate stain
breathing new life into my lungs
your not breathing
your without your without wings you left me here
you precious things your precious things you broken, broken
Lyrics submitted by SilverG
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