"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.
Sailing silver waves
Through the skies and 'round your eyes
And in the pockets of the tide
A meeting place by night
Sequin covered swans
They're used to make their own mosaics
A ceremony comes
An exponential fate
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
A whippowil in flight
Turns east towards Westphalia
In search of lost time
With the magic of true light
Tone zodiac in tune
With the fossil of our theme park
And falling from the seams
Sees the steeple, swarm delight
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Onwards past, never and still faster
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
Through the skies and 'round your eyes
And in the pockets of the tide
A meeting place by night
Sequin covered swans
They're used to make their own mosaics
A ceremony comes
An exponential fate
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
A whippowil in flight
Turns east towards Westphalia
In search of lost time
With the magic of true light
Tone zodiac in tune
With the fossil of our theme park
And falling from the seams
Sees the steeple, swarm delight
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Galloping, galloping, beams faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Joining together and still faster
Onwards past, never and still faster
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
The dance of the cosmos shows
The stitches of space that slowly come and go
The dance of the cosmos shows
As above, so below
Lyrics submitted by Becky at sunrise
As Above, So Below Lyrics as written by Jamie Oliver Jack Reynolds James Nicholas Righton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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