"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.
When did they come and where did they go
My thoughts, pure and white like snow
Here come the long and dark night of my soul
And now I'm all alone
There's a deep dark hole now where my love once used to be
She set me free
This is the long and dark night of my soul
Yes, now I'm all alone
So I've erased myself, replaced my mind, it's a clean slate
All I've felt and everyone I've ever known is gone
I feel a need to leave, just run straight into nowhere
There's nothing left in this town but self loathing
You think you know, think you can see who I am?
Don't colour my sleeves with your narrow mind
I'm more than my hair or the clothes that I wear
I feel the need for a new way of thinking
So I surrender myself to me
When did they come...
Lost in this approaching night
Traces of summer, still warm and breezy
As the sun sets over the forest
The woods are dark, cold and damp
I'm alone in here, and though I can't feel the presence of man
I feel something staring
I don't think the animals will harm me
But I know they know I'm here
To them I am the predator
It's man they've learned to fear
Suddenly a gun shot, then another
Someone is aiming at me
I throw myself behind a big old pine
My heart is beating like crazy
I can sense The Hunter, he's behind me
I'm a deer in his eyes
I start to run and hear him fire once more
Maybe I'm too far away...
My thoughts, pure and white like snow
Here come the long and dark night of my soul
And now I'm all alone
There's a deep dark hole now where my love once used to be
She set me free
This is the long and dark night of my soul
Yes, now I'm all alone
So I've erased myself, replaced my mind, it's a clean slate
All I've felt and everyone I've ever known is gone
I feel a need to leave, just run straight into nowhere
There's nothing left in this town but self loathing
You think you know, think you can see who I am?
Don't colour my sleeves with your narrow mind
I'm more than my hair or the clothes that I wear
I feel the need for a new way of thinking
So I surrender myself to me
When did they come...
Lost in this approaching night
Traces of summer, still warm and breezy
As the sun sets over the forest
The woods are dark, cold and damp
I'm alone in here, and though I can't feel the presence of man
I feel something staring
I don't think the animals will harm me
But I know they know I'm here
To them I am the predator
It's man they've learned to fear
Suddenly a gun shot, then another
Someone is aiming at me
I throw myself behind a big old pine
My heart is beating like crazy
I can sense The Hunter, he's behind me
I'm a deer in his eyes
I start to run and hear him fire once more
Maybe I'm too far away...
Lyrics submitted by Fadefury
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