"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.
Day by Day we can't help growing older
Year by year spring did not help to feel young
Even the sun is getting cold and colder
I've failed you in more ways than one
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
I think back of all my days of yore
Laugh and talk vanished to ash and smoke
I do nothing to remember
But I'm not able to forget
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
Your lonely grave a thousand miles away
My face full of dust my hair like snow
There's a loveliness we share
Even though we're a thousand miles apart
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
When shall we lie again
With no more tears
Hardly able to bear the sorrows
And regrets of my dreams
I have come a thousand miles
Sad now with autumn
And with my hundred years of woe
I climb this height alone
My road has wound
Through many years
Yellow leaves are shaken with a gale
Why should you linger
At the fork of the road
Too late to learn what sorrow means
Sonce yesterday betrayed and bolt me
Today has hurt my heart even more
I bless you for your true advice
But if we met I would not mind
Dance with me we're leaving all to soon
(Dance with me we're leaving all to soon)
Spring flowers, autumn moon,
When will they end?
Year by year spring did not help to feel young
Even the sun is getting cold and colder
I've failed you in more ways than one
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
I think back of all my days of yore
Laugh and talk vanished to ash and smoke
I do nothing to remember
But I'm not able to forget
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
Your lonely grave a thousand miles away
My face full of dust my hair like snow
There's a loveliness we share
Even though we're a thousand miles apart
Tonight the evening mists,
Find no place to gather
Twilight falls, light drops of silent rain
Saddened by the dying spring
Song and dance have come to an end
When shall we lie again
With no more tears
Hardly able to bear the sorrows
And regrets of my dreams
I have come a thousand miles
Sad now with autumn
And with my hundred years of woe
I climb this height alone
My road has wound
Through many years
Yellow leaves are shaken with a gale
Why should you linger
At the fork of the road
Too late to learn what sorrow means
Sonce yesterday betrayed and bolt me
Today has hurt my heart even more
I bless you for your true advice
But if we met I would not mind
Dance with me we're leaving all to soon
(Dance with me we're leaving all to soon)
Spring flowers, autumn moon,
When will they end?
Lyrics submitted by Alexiel_Laguna
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