"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.
In fear of drowning
As my heart keeps pounding
Striking ones step
To hold on to what's left
Hold on, to the strings of reality
Bouncing on my heel of prosperity
Leave from my cell with a gleam in my eye
Watching it all wash by, watching it die
Its so hard to see it all fall through
But it's too late nothing left to do
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Release me from a world unkind
A world where the blind is leading the blind
It's so unfair that i can't feel free
That i have to be what you want me to be
Shadows of the past keep stabbing my back
Reminding me of when i slipped out of track
They're wasting their time another morning dawning
And time when the restless keeps on joining
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
(Whaaaaaaaaaa!)
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
As my heart keeps pounding
Striking ones step
To hold on to what's left
Hold on, to the strings of reality
Bouncing on my heel of prosperity
Leave from my cell with a gleam in my eye
Watching it all wash by, watching it die
Its so hard to see it all fall through
But it's too late nothing left to do
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Release me from a world unkind
A world where the blind is leading the blind
It's so unfair that i can't feel free
That i have to be what you want me to be
Shadows of the past keep stabbing my back
Reminding me of when i slipped out of track
They're wasting their time another morning dawning
And time when the restless keeps on joining
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
(Whaaaaaaaaaa!)
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Refugee, I'm an enemy of your belief
Don't hate me, because i disagree
Lyrics submitted by littlebah888
Refugee Lyrics as written by Christian Mats Michael Lindh Stefan Enberg
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Broma 16
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