"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.
These walls of time release
My eyes move like the drift
The cries, they resonate within
The fabric tears before me
Break ties between the kin
Reaching for a way out of this dream
I waste my breath ascending
Fears lead me astray
The past brings them to be
Whats left to carry me
But a memory
The dream endures these lies
Forever at the edge, left surviving alone
Whats left as I wonder
I've found a world where I am free
Inside that which is truth
The ground upon which I have grown is not the same
The fears, they've fallen away
Presently I've found I am not alone in a world of infinity sewn
Perceive beyond the seam
A soul evolves as one
My eyes move like the drift
The cries, they resonate within
The fabric tears before me
Break ties between the kin
Reaching for a way out of this dream
I waste my breath ascending
Fears lead me astray
The past brings them to be
Whats left to carry me
But a memory
The dream endures these lies
Forever at the edge, left surviving alone
Whats left as I wonder
I've found a world where I am free
Inside that which is truth
The ground upon which I have grown is not the same
The fears, they've fallen away
Presently I've found I am not alone in a world of infinity sewn
Perceive beyond the seam
A soul evolves as one
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Jetpacks Was Yes Lyrics as written by Jake Bowen Alexander Bois
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Friggin' start reading books on how to conquer fear. You read everything else. You're able to do everything else. How about spending as much time on this as you do on sexual conquests. How about it?
i loooove this song.
i'm surprised periphery is still such an unheard of band. they're gonna be huge.
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I dont know what anyone else thinks, but dont you think this guy has one of the best voices ever?
yeah he's an awesome singer, terrible screamer. But this and letter experiment are AMAZING songs
HOLY SHIT. I just heard the new song version that goes with the music video. how freaking epic, it's really good
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Title is an Arrested Development reference