"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.
Was that smile meant for me? Are my eyes too tired to see?
Terrified and paralysed. Mesmerised and hypnotised
Why d’you have to sit so near? What’s this ringing in my ears?
Knowingly and willingly. Silently and tenderly
How can I eat when my mouth screams to touch you?
Tortured in sleep, dreams content to explore you
Were you only being kind, when I brushed your lips with mine?
Longing now to touch your skin, ashamed of my imagining
Circling around, senses only betray me
Heady as wine, eyes that intoxicate me
I suppose it’s just the situation. Too confined to my imagination
But… somewhere
Was that smile meant for me? Are my eyes too tired?
Terrified and paralysed. Mesmerised and hypnotised
Terrified and paralysed. Mesmerised and hypnotised
Why d’you have to sit so near? What’s this ringing in my ears?
Knowingly and willingly. Silently and tenderly
How can I eat when my mouth screams to touch you?
Tortured in sleep, dreams content to explore you
Were you only being kind, when I brushed your lips with mine?
Longing now to touch your skin, ashamed of my imagining
Circling around, senses only betray me
Heady as wine, eyes that intoxicate me
I suppose it’s just the situation. Too confined to my imagination
But… somewhere
Was that smile meant for me? Are my eyes too tired?
Terrified and paralysed. Mesmerised and hypnotised
Lyrics submitted by delial
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