"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.
One has to come to terms with one's own mortality.
And you can't really help people who are having problems with mortality
if you've got problems of your own.
So you have to begin to sort things out,
and I thought I had sorted things out until I saw this excerpt from this book,
of certainty I shall remember what it said:
"Life is not the opposite of death. Death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal."
(Life is eternal)
And I thought that it's the most profound words I have ever heard
about that issue, and it really put me in peace.
And I felt it was a wonderful story. And that's it. What else is there to say? Heh.
Life is eternal. Surely the opposite of life is not death, but life is eternal. There is no opposite.
And so, what happens is, I suppose,
and isn't this an outrageous state of pure consciousness, stillness and silence?
Yeah, what we are looking for now, we are searching for and we have been searching for,
now we've become closer to it, and now we know it's already there, is there forever to seek.
It's there, and it's going to be there, all the time, forevermore.
(Only you can heal your life
Only you can heal inside)
(Life is eternal – x11)
And you can't really help people who are having problems with mortality
if you've got problems of your own.
So you have to begin to sort things out,
and I thought I had sorted things out until I saw this excerpt from this book,
of certainty I shall remember what it said:
"Life is not the opposite of death. Death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal."
(Life is eternal)
And I thought that it's the most profound words I have ever heard
about that issue, and it really put me in peace.
And I felt it was a wonderful story. And that's it. What else is there to say? Heh.
Life is eternal. Surely the opposite of life is not death, but life is eternal. There is no opposite.
And so, what happens is, I suppose,
and isn't this an outrageous state of pure consciousness, stillness and silence?
Yeah, what we are looking for now, we are searching for and we have been searching for,
now we've become closer to it, and now we know it's already there, is there forever to seek.
It's there, and it's going to be there, all the time, forevermore.
(Only you can heal your life
Only you can heal inside)
(Life is eternal – x11)
Lyrics submitted by Astronomo, edited by Octavarium64
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Wow! Life is eternal...
Life is eternal.
Hmm. Interesting. But where does God, our Father, play a role in this?