"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.
There's a storm on the horizon
And for that I can't see the sun
For I'll keep a waiting on the pavement
For the ice-cream van to come
Its die hard hate to follow
And I'll not follow that
The marching people running round my head
Running round my head I don't know why
Why can't we see
Straight through the powers that be
Who keep us breaking each others hearts
And keeping us apart, keeping us apart
Destroying the ground where gruesome lays
Sectarianism and the hurtful racist ways
Bring back the glory days
Active citizenship
And pure community
Freedom of faith
There's a storm on the horizon
And for that I can't see the sun
For I'll keep a waiting on the pavement
For the ice-cream van to come
Its die hard hate to follow
And I'll not follow that
The marching people running round my head
Running round my head I don't know why
Why can't we see
Straight through the powers that be
Who keep us breaking each others hearts
And keeping us apart, keeping us apart
Destroying the ground where gruesome lays
Sectarianism and the hurtful racist ways
Bring back the glory days
Active citizenship
And pure community
Freedom of faith
There's a storm on the horizon
Lyrics submitted by miss_bunbury
Ice Cream Van Lyrics as written by James Allan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I'm pretty sure youre both right, seanmc22 yeah it is written from a kids point of view, waiting for an actual ice cream van to come, but at the same time, that is also a metaphor for pretty much what the first 2 comments said. I think the ice cream van bit is him using his own experience as a kid to get across his point.
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