"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.
Forget my past in your game
This is just a bruise
This is just the mirror meant to show the truth
Dusty eyes set free to rise, changing over soon
Dusty eyes to see now the changes in you
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
I can't breathe this poison
It strangles little girls
The marks of pain remaining
Upon her face a pearl
A trail for all, a sinner's ball
Stare with hungry eyes
A trail for all the sinners
Staring as you rise
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
All that's left until the end
All that's left, our time be damned
Your hand's so cold
Oh, forgive me
This is the mirror
It reflects what is real
Sinners stare as you rise
And they kill with their eyes
This is the end
Our time may be damned
As you trip, as you change
As you slip out of range
This is the mirror
It reflects what is real
Sinners stare as you rise
And they kill with their eyes
This is the end
Our time will be damned
As you trip, as you change
As you slip
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
All that's left until the end
All that's left, our time be damned
Your hand's so cold
This is just a bruise
This is just the mirror meant to show the truth
Dusty eyes set free to rise, changing over soon
Dusty eyes to see now the changes in you
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
I can't breathe this poison
It strangles little girls
The marks of pain remaining
Upon her face a pearl
A trail for all, a sinner's ball
Stare with hungry eyes
A trail for all the sinners
Staring as you rise
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
All that's left until the end
All that's left, our time be damned
Your hand's so cold
Oh, forgive me
This is the mirror
It reflects what is real
Sinners stare as you rise
And they kill with their eyes
This is the end
Our time may be damned
As you trip, as you change
As you slip out of range
This is the mirror
It reflects what is real
Sinners stare as you rise
And they kill with their eyes
This is the end
Our time will be damned
As you trip, as you change
As you slip
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
Your hand's so cold… forgive me
All that's left until the end
All that's left, our time be damned
Your hand's so cold
Lyrics submitted by ~*Marishka*~
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