"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.
Ano oka no mukou ishidatami no michi ni ukabu hidamari to anata no suki na piano no oto
Arifureta hibi no dekigoto ga itsumademo kono oto ni yadoru
Kasa ga naku hi mo tsukimichiru hi mo futari deatta hi no koto mo
Ikiteiru koto nagareteiru chi wo kodou wo kikasetekure
I wish...heaven aitakute
Itsumademo aifureta hibi wo ayumu toki no yukue kono mama de isasete
Hitori de mukatta tsuki akari no michi de omoi kaesu no wa anata to kiita piano no oto
Dare no koe mo iranai ima mo ano oto go kikoetekuru kana
Kioku wo koete anata ga mieru futari deatta hi no you ni
Ikiteiru koto nagareteiru chi wo kodou wo kikasetekure
I wish...heaven aitakute
Amari ni mo tsumetakute shizuka sugite toki no tobira aku koto wa nai anata no hitomi mo
Eien no seijaku na no ka? nozomi wa kanaerareru no ka?
"sayounara no kotoba wa iwanai." ima sugu anata ni aenai keredo...
I wish...heaven kono sekai wo anata wa mada shiranakute ii konakute ii
I wish...heaven toki ga kureba itsu demo aeru kara
I wish...heaven ai ni kite futatabi inochi wo yadoshita kara
I wish...heaven
I will look at
"flower"
Ano hi made...
Arifureta hibi no dekigoto ga itsumademo kono oto ni yadoru
Kasa ga naku hi mo tsukimichiru hi mo futari deatta hi no koto mo
Ikiteiru koto nagareteiru chi wo kodou wo kikasetekure
I wish...heaven aitakute
Itsumademo aifureta hibi wo ayumu toki no yukue kono mama de isasete
Hitori de mukatta tsuki akari no michi de omoi kaesu no wa anata to kiita piano no oto
Dare no koe mo iranai ima mo ano oto go kikoetekuru kana
Kioku wo koete anata ga mieru futari deatta hi no you ni
Ikiteiru koto nagareteiru chi wo kodou wo kikasetekure
I wish...heaven aitakute
Amari ni mo tsumetakute shizuka sugite toki no tobira aku koto wa nai anata no hitomi mo
Eien no seijaku na no ka? nozomi wa kanaerareru no ka?
"sayounara no kotoba wa iwanai." ima sugu anata ni aenai keredo...
I wish...heaven kono sekai wo anata wa mada shiranakute ii konakute ii
I wish...heaven toki ga kureba itsu demo aeru kara
I wish...heaven ai ni kite futatabi inochi wo yadoshita kara
I wish...heaven
I will look at
"flower"
Ano hi made...
Lyrics submitted by domesticfuxxer
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