"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.
Wake up on your own
And look around you 'cause you?re not alone
Release your high hopes and they?ll survive
'cause this is the future and you are alive
Dive in and swim away
From your loneliness and miserable days
And when you wake up on your own
Look around you 'cause you?re not alone
Let your hopes go and they?ll survive
'cause this is the future and you are alive
?You?re headed home
And look around you 'cause you?re not alone
Release your high hopes and they?ll survive
'cause this is the future and you are alive
Dive in and swim away
From your loneliness and miserable days
And when you wake up on your own
Look around you 'cause you?re not alone
Let your hopes go and they?ll survive
'cause this is the future and you are alive
?You?re headed home
Lyrics submitted by xxadaylate
This Is the Future Lyrics as written by Adam R. Young
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i think when he's saying to let your hopes go and they'll survive, he means that really the only way to get where you want to be, is to take chances, and no matter what chances you take, your hopes will ALWAYS be there.
and when he's saying your headed home, i think he's saying that 'home' is the place/time when you are truely happy. i think this song is BEAUTIFUL(: bravo Adam. your lyrics are truely inspiring(: