"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.
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
This is the final end
A voice in the wilderness
Fights in fear no more
Because this stronger death
More sold men before
Massive tears wake up
Shows what's to expect
Scores on top of scores
Racing for the future we don't have
Fear is taking over me
There is nothing I can see
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
We have to guide ourselves
For we cannot stand
One more false pretense getting out of hand
Now fear is the driving force
Taking over us
And finding out this source
Made to know to be too much to bear
Fear is taking over me
There is nothing I can see
How could peace seem more to be
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
Defeat the science, knowledge, wisdom
These words have always ever lasted
This is the final end
Vertigo, impossible
Vertigo, impossible
We store all that belongs to us
It depends, the way to speak
It depends, is what we say
We store all that was left behind
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
Defeat the science, knowledge, wisdom
These words have always ever lasted
This is the final end
You know that's always better, faster
This is the final end
A voice in the wilderness
Fights in fear no more
Because this stronger death
More sold men before
Massive tears wake up
Shows what's to expect
Scores on top of scores
Racing for the future we don't have
Fear is taking over me
There is nothing I can see
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
We have to guide ourselves
For we cannot stand
One more false pretense getting out of hand
Now fear is the driving force
Taking over us
And finding out this source
Made to know to be too much to bear
Fear is taking over me
There is nothing I can see
How could peace seem more to be
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
Defeat the science, knowledge, wisdom
These words have always ever lasted
This is the final end
Vertigo, impossible
Vertigo, impossible
We store all that belongs to us
It depends, the way to speak
It depends, is what we say
We store all that was left behind
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
The future is as certain
As life will come to an end
When time feels like a burden
We struggle with a certain death
Wisdom, knowledge, science
You know that's always better, faster
Defeat the science, knowledge, wisdom
These words have always ever lasted
This is the final end
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no comments at all??? wow.. that's sad.
fairly straightforward message here.
"Science, knowledge, wisdom Destroys us, always, ever, faster"
need i say more?