"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.
Soft light, total silence
So tired to take the table near the door
The table near the door
Sat back on the fire
I'm only as stable as I choose to show
If I choose to show
But where were you that night?
When I was...
Well, I feel that this an explosion
Nobody else could ever really know
I will follow you anywhere
You say you don't believe in science
You're always afraid of what you can't control
I will follow you anywhere
But where were you that night?
When I was...
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
Unkempt and overcaffeinated
I walked the forty steps to the moon
You met me
You say you don't believe in science
You're always ashamed of what you're willing to lose
I will follow you anywhere
But where were you that night?
When I was...
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
So this is it
So this is it
So this is the silence
So this is the silence we became
It's never quite
It's never quite over
It's never quite over in the sorrow
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
So tired to take the table near the door
The table near the door
Sat back on the fire
I'm only as stable as I choose to show
If I choose to show
But where were you that night?
When I was...
Well, I feel that this an explosion
Nobody else could ever really know
I will follow you anywhere
You say you don't believe in science
You're always afraid of what you can't control
I will follow you anywhere
But where were you that night?
When I was...
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
Unkempt and overcaffeinated
I walked the forty steps to the moon
You met me
You say you don't believe in science
You're always ashamed of what you're willing to lose
I will follow you anywhere
But where were you that night?
When I was...
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
So this is it
So this is it
So this is the silence
So this is the silence we became
It's never quite
It's never quite over
It's never quite over in the sorrow
When I was calling for the answer
That you probably shouldn't know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
When you were calling with your question
When all I needed was to know
Well, it feels like flames surrounding me here
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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