"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.
She haunts me in dreams
I see her silhouette dance across landscapes
Of golden light and autumn
In my dreams
Her soft eyes see (the thing I'd give)
Through my tortured soul (to prove myself to her)
Vanishing (to make her see)
Any hope for fantasy
Jaded eyes awake as her selfish words rain from such placid lips
Still I kiss her silken flesh
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Through the howling wind, on my knees, I cry
Listen to me
I'm broken by her silence to a love unseen
Blood soaked feathers rained down
My wingless angel so broken falls gracefully from the sky
To waiting arms
To waiting arms
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Through the howling wind, on my knees, I cry
Listen to me
Such foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
Jaded eyes wake to the sounds of my voice as I scream to her
In dreams I've seen her silhouette dance across golden light
And autumn
In my dreams
In my dreams skies so burdened let her go
As cold rain falls, so does she
My desires whither, broken once more
Soft hands take one so fair she haunts me
I see her silhouette dance across landscapes
Of golden light and autumn
In my dreams
Her soft eyes see (the thing I'd give)
Through my tortured soul (to prove myself to her)
Vanishing (to make her see)
Any hope for fantasy
Jaded eyes awake as her selfish words rain from such placid lips
Still I kiss her silken flesh
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Through the howling wind, on my knees, I cry
Listen to me
I'm broken by her silence to a love unseen
Blood soaked feathers rained down
My wingless angel so broken falls gracefully from the sky
To waiting arms
To waiting arms
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Frigid air leaves me breathless
Foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
I confess I scare myself
Through the howling wind, on my knees, I cry
Listen to me
Such foolish agony fills my lungs as I try to scream for her
Jaded eyes wake to the sounds of my voice as I scream to her
In dreams I've seen her silhouette dance across golden light
And autumn
In my dreams
In my dreams skies so burdened let her go
As cold rain falls, so does she
My desires whither, broken once more
Soft hands take one so fair she haunts me
Lyrics submitted by Aphrodisiac, edited by pkmnavy
The Artist Lyrics as written by Dennis Lavell Lee Dennis Lee
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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