"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.
Run and hide again
I want to wait this time
Don't wonder why you can't clear this final sin
You know this story was over before it began
This is a battle you're not going to win
Welcome the end
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never gonna witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
You better run!
Ask me why again, nowhere to go this time
Revenge will be mine again
Say good bye, my friend
Don't run away this time and die like a man
There is no escape from my plan
Welcome the end
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never going to witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
There is no reprieve
You don't dare to look in my eyes
Will turn their gaze away in time
You better run!
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never going to witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
Welcome to the end
Run and hide again
I want to wait this time
Don't wonder why you can't clear this final sin
You know the story was over before it fucking began
I want to wait this time
Don't wonder why you can't clear this final sin
You know this story was over before it began
This is a battle you're not going to win
Welcome the end
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never gonna witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
You better run!
Ask me why again, nowhere to go this time
Revenge will be mine again
Say good bye, my friend
Don't run away this time and die like a man
There is no escape from my plan
Welcome the end
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never going to witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
There is no reprieve
You don't dare to look in my eyes
Will turn their gaze away in time
You better run!
I've spent a lifetime planning out your destruction
You're never going to witness another day
A lonely lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know how long I've waited for your destruction
I'm telling you, you just can't get away
A whole lifetime planning out your destruction, with no other function
You really don't know
Welcome to the end
Run and hide again
I want to wait this time
Don't wonder why you can't clear this final sin
You know the story was over before it fucking began
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"There is no reprieve You don't dare to look in my eye We'll turn their gaze away in time"
"Don't run away this time Don't wonder why You can't lift this final sin You know the story was over before it censoreding began."
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