"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.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Oh-oh!
Oh-oh!
Deep in the night,
Coming the violence
Sweet with the danger
I have realize
Another law in
Another contender
In their right rising
To burn to a cinder
Their coming times
Awaiting the answers
I never let them strike you dawn
I find to fly in the way
Is very away to turn the mind
Of a very stranger
Until the days is waiting to use
To were my offender
A primal faith no convinced
To burn to a cinder
I need to laid warning and beauty
I never let them strike you dawn
I find to fly in the way
I felt in my behind
I never let them brake you now
Keep all the moments
[Chorus]
Give me answers to my prays
I never I could face to glow
Your the light I see to
Face the faith and bless the fire,
Give me answers to my prays
I'll carry on the way to back
Give me sign to see you,
Never wait, you stand to keep the flame
I never let them stake you dawn,
I felt to find the way I back
And lost behind
I never let them brake you now,
Keep all the one men
[Chorus]
Why can't time live with you?
For heaven I will be pray
To the words I faith the, true
Oh-oh!
Oh-oh!
Deep in the night,
Coming the violence
Sweet with the danger
I have realize
Another law in
Another contender
In their right rising
To burn to a cinder
Their coming times
Awaiting the answers
I never let them strike you dawn
I find to fly in the way
Is very away to turn the mind
Of a very stranger
Until the days is waiting to use
To were my offender
A primal faith no convinced
To burn to a cinder
I need to laid warning and beauty
I never let them strike you dawn
I find to fly in the way
I felt in my behind
I never let them brake you now
Keep all the moments
[Chorus]
Give me answers to my prays
I never I could face to glow
Your the light I see to
Face the faith and bless the fire,
Give me answers to my prays
I'll carry on the way to back
Give me sign to see you,
Never wait, you stand to keep the flame
I never let them stake you dawn,
I felt to find the way I back
And lost behind
I never let them brake you now,
Keep all the one men
[Chorus]
Why can't time live with you?
For heaven I will be pray
To the words I faith the, true
Lyrics submitted by HystericRomance
Burn to a Cinder Lyrics as written by Coen J. Janssen Amanda Somerville
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing
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