"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.
It burns like a fire in the night
It polarizes and becomes her starlight
Starlight
Under the trees, in the night
You'll find it there
In the space between heartbeats
Where the whole world disappears
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
Inside your dreams you will see forever ?
It's around us but we cannot stay
Moments are all we have
But in this moment we can live a lifetime here
All thats passed and shrunken
Falls away under the trees
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away x 2
As forever fades away
Forever fades away x2
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
It polarizes and becomes her starlight
Starlight
Under the trees, in the night
You'll find it there
In the space between heartbeats
Where the whole world disappears
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
Inside your dreams you will see forever ?
It's around us but we cannot stay
Moments are all we have
But in this moment we can live a lifetime here
All thats passed and shrunken
Falls away under the trees
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
In another garden
I'm lost again
Like the razor's kiss
It's you I hold
And the flame still burns (forever)
And her hearts still yearns (forever)
And in my dreams I've found this place
But the endless pain (forever)
And the light grows faint (forever)
As forever fades away
Forever fades away x 2
As forever fades away
Forever fades away x2
As forever fades away
Forever fades away
Lyrics submitted by 281sellout806
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