"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.
Hi-Fi fellas and low-fi chicks.
Hair is how we take you there.
Bones is how we make it now.
Now, I'm after a walking disaster.
We live life we live it large.
in control taking charge.
you are soft and we are hard.
You don't desire to step to our fire. x2
You gonna know if you keep on asking questions.
You're gonna know real soon.
you say "hey I never fall"
As you're falling down.
You're blood is all around you now.
But you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" get against the wall.
Yeah, YOU get against the wall. x2
It's just the way the city smells.
It's just the way the rain falls now.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
It's just the way you talk so loud.
It's just the way the bones fall now.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
We be the ritalin calm you down, alright.
We love you in Glacial ways. x6
You gonna know if you keep on asking question.
You gonna know real soon.
You say "hey, I never fall"
As you're falling down.
You're blood is all around you now.
But you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" get against the wall.
Yeah, YOU get against the wall. x2
Hair is how we take you there.
Bones is how we make it now.
Now, I'm after a walking disaster.
We live life we live it large.
in control taking charge.
you are soft and we are hard.
You don't desire to step to our fire. x2
You gonna know if you keep on asking questions.
You're gonna know real soon.
you say "hey I never fall"
As you're falling down.
You're blood is all around you now.
But you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" get against the wall.
Yeah, YOU get against the wall. x2
It's just the way the city smells.
It's just the way the rain falls now.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
It's just the way you talk so loud.
It's just the way the bones fall now.
We be the ritalin calm you down.
We be the ritalin calm you down, alright.
We love you in Glacial ways. x6
You gonna know if you keep on asking question.
You gonna know real soon.
You say "hey, I never fall"
As you're falling down.
You're blood is all around you now.
But you see nothing at all.
You say "hey" get against the wall.
Yeah, YOU get against the wall. x2
Lyrics submitted by lepidoptera3, edited by siberianbreaks
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"Some and now none of you"
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"WE LOVE YOU IN GLACIAL WAYS". This is my favorite part. When something is glacial it's slow and progressive; but certainly on a different timescale than the human mind is accustomed to focusing its attention on. Think of time lapsed photography, plants growing, glaciers moving, but more importantly... lungs getting blacker, sicker.. liver deteriorating.. ris for heart attack gradually increasing. Death by a thousand tiny cuts.
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