"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.
I'll just keep waiting
You'll just keep waiting, in the cold...
the supplement...
we lost some friends,
we drove the bends
so small...
A conscious decision to persuade
ourselves amongst the common human...
The drive to complete ourselves has become a blurry vision.
Always wanting more...
bettering ourselves through selfish minds,
it has started to overflow.
A current that creates this undertow...
swimming beneath it all..
You'll just keep waiting, in the cold...
the supplement...
we lost some friends,
we drove the bends
so small...
A conscious decision to persuade
ourselves amongst the common human...
The drive to complete ourselves has become a blurry vision.
Always wanting more...
bettering ourselves through selfish minds,
it has started to overflow.
A current that creates this undertow...
swimming beneath it all..
Lyrics submitted by Shevanel, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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