"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.
See the stars from a million places
Porcelain skin puts our faces entwined in time
Never lost my way for you
Felt it all around me
Never gonna stop
Never stop anything at all
Repeat all that we do
Let's start from the beginning
The times we've lost can be repaired
So be prepared
The moments we burned into our minds
Yeah we'll be fine
We say our goodbyes
Let's bring it tonight
The story's building as we live on through this night
Representation to approve the words we bind
The city never pulls through once we all are doomed
Never gonna stop
Never stop anything at all
Remember what we do
Re-live the lives we put in the sky
The times we've lost can be repaired
So be prepared
The moments we burned into our minds
Yeah we'll be fine
Porcelain skin puts our faces entwined in time
Never lost my way for you
Felt it all around me
Never gonna stop
Never stop anything at all
Repeat all that we do
Let's start from the beginning
The times we've lost can be repaired
So be prepared
The moments we burned into our minds
Yeah we'll be fine
We say our goodbyes
Let's bring it tonight
The story's building as we live on through this night
Representation to approve the words we bind
The city never pulls through once we all are doomed
Never gonna stop
Never stop anything at all
Remember what we do
Re-live the lives we put in the sky
The times we've lost can be repaired
So be prepared
The moments we burned into our minds
Yeah we'll be fine
Lyrics submitted by follow the lights
City on the Edge of Forever Lyrics as written by Cory Matthew La Quay Brian Michael White
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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well, i gotta both agree with dodgerguy89 and Jamalteikorexo .. it is about FFX but if you take it broadly, it is also about the imagination what come between..x] I really like to play FFX..x]