"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.
Voyagers! Open your cramped legs locked in that flying suit of lights. Open your eyes. You are with us now. Adjust your eyes to the dark. We are all the same. A small group of lucky aces bound together in black air burning out our hopeful eyes. Dust and wind bleed out the skies. Monuments, architecture,flat at our feet. Rubble and blood, rubble and blood, rubble and blood. Still! Still I stand before you, dear stranger and I say: Yes! Yes, we can climb out from the tangled metal and cement and say: Yes!. Yes, we can look upon the dark sky of day and say: I never was who I seemed to be.
When there's no hope. When there's no hope left, there is only one word, one word, one word that has dried on your parched lips. Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? The word is love! The word is love! The word is love! Love! Tell the truth and be free. This is my hit and run. This is my porn collection. This me feeling superior to you. This is me selling you out when you needed me most. This my huge, diseased, throbbing prick. This is my homosexual inclinations. This is me loving someone I'm not supposed to love. Is this me? This is what I don't want people to see. Look upon them and let me be free, let me be free, let me be free, let me be free.
This is me I don't think normal people, doing things, doing things I don't think normal people do. But I can see you. Haha. You're dirty too, you're dirty too, through and through, you're dirty too. We are reigning in the dust. And when there's no hope, when there's no hope, there's only one word. There's only one word that hasn't dried on your parched lips. The word is love. Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me?
There's only one word that has hasn't dried completely in your parched throat. Can you say it with me? The word is love.
When there's no hope. When there's no hope left, there is only one word, one word, one word that has dried on your parched lips. Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? Can you say it with me? The word is love! The word is love! The word is love! Love! Tell the truth and be free. This is my hit and run. This is my porn collection. This me feeling superior to you. This is me selling you out when you needed me most. This my huge, diseased, throbbing prick. This is my homosexual inclinations. This is me loving someone I'm not supposed to love. Is this me? This is what I don't want people to see. Look upon them and let me be free, let me be free, let me be free, let me be free.
This is me I don't think normal people, doing things, doing things I don't think normal people do. But I can see you. Haha. You're dirty too, you're dirty too, through and through, you're dirty too. We are reigning in the dust. And when there's no hope, when there's no hope, there's only one word. There's only one word that hasn't dried on your parched lips. The word is love. Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me? Love! Can you say it with me?
There's only one word that has hasn't dried completely in your parched throat. Can you say it with me? The word is love.
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