"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 can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long
How long, must we sing this song
How long
How long
'Cause tonight
We can be as one
Tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
How long
How long, must we sing this song
How long
How long
'Cause tonight
We can be as one
Tonight
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Sunday, bloody Sunday (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
And it's true
We are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today
The millions cry (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long
How long, must we sing this song
How long
How long
'Cause tonight
We can be as one
Tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
How long
How long, must we sing this song
How long
How long
'Cause tonight
We can be as one
Tonight
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Sunday, bloody Sunday (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
And it's true
We are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today
The millions cry (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Lyrics submitted by chainhomelow
Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics as written by Adam Clayton Paul David Hewson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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