"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.
JUST MAD PAIN
I woke up unexpectedly at night
This voice I hear, is it my window of hope?
Or is it from the depth of my mind?
My eyes are wide open, and yet I don't know
Can't find the reason to live
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
When did this happen?
My heart is in pain and it won't stop
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
Everything seems to be a lie
And everything keeps deceiving me
I woke up flapping my wings
The scattered agony and the reality warns and wanders in my tears
The confusion weighs in again
The unstoppable voices start a diffused reflection
Can it be erased?
Can it be killed?
I close my eyes, but I don't know
Can't find a single proof that I'm living
In this transitory world
I stare into my heart becoming stained
And I'm alone and I can't do anything
In the pain
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
Why?
I hold dear within my ill gotten beliefs
Why?
I welcome tomorrow without understanding today
I woke up flapping my wings
The scattered agony and the reality warns and wanders in my tears
It bloomed in the traces of my tears
Held by nothingness
In the voice that won't stop ringing
Deep inside the burned out truth
Is the one piece of hope
I woke up unexpectedly at night
This voice I hear, is it my window of hope?
Or is it from the depth of my mind?
My eyes are wide open, and yet I don't know
Can't find the reason to live
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
When did this happen?
My heart is in pain and it won't stop
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
Everything seems to be a lie
And everything keeps deceiving me
I woke up flapping my wings
The scattered agony and the reality warns and wanders in my tears
The confusion weighs in again
The unstoppable voices start a diffused reflection
Can it be erased?
Can it be killed?
I close my eyes, but I don't know
Can't find a single proof that I'm living
In this transitory world
I stare into my heart becoming stained
And I'm alone and I can't do anything
In the pain
Feel just mad pain
Feel just mad pain
Why?
I hold dear within my ill gotten beliefs
Why?
I welcome tomorrow without understanding today
I woke up flapping my wings
The scattered agony and the reality warns and wanders in my tears
It bloomed in the traces of my tears
Held by nothingness
In the voice that won't stop ringing
Deep inside the burned out truth
Is the one piece of hope
Lyrics submitted by underthebed
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