"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.
(The pitter-patter of tiny feet on the glass of our eyes
Making things so hard to see
Wipe the pain away, and then you see that the sun does shine
As you walk you notice you don't walk alone, this army is full of people
People who've lost the will to live
Can you help us now)
We have been watching the clocks collapse.
A bridge that folds together and no longer lasts.
With opened eyes Ill no longer see. Never forgot how things used to be.
Pouring down a sky of insecurity. A dream of destination and the thoughts of being free.
Hopeless dreams in a dying day I never felt I would return in grey.
Wind back those times, When our children learned to smile.
I can't wait no longer. I cannot hold my breath for any longer.
When will this ever fucking end ?
Im just a silent man on his way to neverland.
Never thought I would mean so much , so much without a simple touch.
To me you are still weak or is it me who is trained not to breathe.
Trained to carry you , carry you away on these ships.
(The pitter-patter of tiny feet on the glass of our eyes
Making things so hard to see
Wipe the pain away, can you help us now?)
This will never be the same again.
Pictures that never seemed to end.
Making things so hard to see
Wipe the pain away, and then you see that the sun does shine
As you walk you notice you don't walk alone, this army is full of people
People who've lost the will to live
Can you help us now)
We have been watching the clocks collapse.
A bridge that folds together and no longer lasts.
With opened eyes Ill no longer see. Never forgot how things used to be.
Pouring down a sky of insecurity. A dream of destination and the thoughts of being free.
Hopeless dreams in a dying day I never felt I would return in grey.
Wind back those times, When our children learned to smile.
I can't wait no longer. I cannot hold my breath for any longer.
When will this ever fucking end ?
Im just a silent man on his way to neverland.
Never thought I would mean so much , so much without a simple touch.
To me you are still weak or is it me who is trained not to breathe.
Trained to carry you , carry you away on these ships.
(The pitter-patter of tiny feet on the glass of our eyes
Making things so hard to see
Wipe the pain away, can you help us now?)
This will never be the same again.
Pictures that never seemed to end.
Lyrics submitted by Removed
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