"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.
The sky is falling, over us.
And I'm sure, these bodies can fly above the earth.
Onward to the sun.
It's hailing stars and tonight the skies are flashing.
These clouds surround my face.
We'll be tucked in tight tonight and if we speak quietly we'll never wake ourselves up.
Tonight your mine... and still the only one I'd have by my side.
We'll never come down from here.
It's all so real to me.
Or so it seems, is this even a dream?
It's so unreal how these bodies float and I can't feel cause nothing can touch us tonight.
As we take flight.
As we take flight tonight nothing can touch us tonight.
Our pilot never finishes his sentences.
He just goes on and on without a breath.
Everything is in it's right place.
And the clouds surround my face.
I can hold the stars in the palm of my hand.
Everything is spaced and nothing is out of reach.
In this field of clovers, the view from here is always hazy.
But we'll never stop floating on this cloud.
The sky is falling over us and I'm sure these bodies can fly above the earth.
Onward to the sun.
We'll be tucked in tight tonight and if we speak quietly.
We'll never wake ourselves up.
We'll never wake ourselves up.
And I'm sure, these bodies can fly above the earth.
Onward to the sun.
It's hailing stars and tonight the skies are flashing.
These clouds surround my face.
We'll be tucked in tight tonight and if we speak quietly we'll never wake ourselves up.
Tonight your mine... and still the only one I'd have by my side.
We'll never come down from here.
It's all so real to me.
Or so it seems, is this even a dream?
It's so unreal how these bodies float and I can't feel cause nothing can touch us tonight.
As we take flight.
As we take flight tonight nothing can touch us tonight.
Our pilot never finishes his sentences.
He just goes on and on without a breath.
Everything is in it's right place.
And the clouds surround my face.
I can hold the stars in the palm of my hand.
Everything is spaced and nothing is out of reach.
In this field of clovers, the view from here is always hazy.
But we'll never stop floating on this cloud.
The sky is falling over us and I'm sure these bodies can fly above the earth.
Onward to the sun.
We'll be tucked in tight tonight and if we speak quietly.
We'll never wake ourselves up.
We'll never wake ourselves up.
Lyrics submitted by switchsl
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