"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.
Don't be afraid if you hear voices
Or feel the sweet air spoken upon you
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispering words
Of hope will reassure
Show me the future
Will see us joined together
If the oceans fled or the mountains sigh
Then I will keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
Don't be afraid if you're descending the deepest despair
Without a handrail to guide you
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispering words
Can confuse
But when you're sleeping
They shift and slide together
Bring meaning to the canyon's cry
Oh, I...I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispers
Are where you live a little fear
But feel the future
Well I feel us dream together
I feel no fear, I feel no fire
Oh, I...I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream
Or feel the sweet air spoken upon you
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispering words
Of hope will reassure
Show me the future
Will see us joined together
If the oceans fled or the mountains sigh
Then I will keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
Don't be afraid if you're descending the deepest despair
Without a handrail to guide you
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispering words
Can confuse
But when you're sleeping
They shift and slide together
Bring meaning to the canyon's cry
Oh, I...I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
Sometimes the sound of a thousand whispers
Are where you live a little fear
But feel the future
Well I feel us dream together
I feel no fear, I feel no fire
Oh, I...I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream again
I live to dream
Lyrics submitted by savinbalix
Dream Again Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Mccarthy Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Mind-blowing!