"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.
You don't think I know how this ends?
I've heard these words before and there more meaningless now then they were then
It feels like I'm drowning and you're oceans away
It feels like I'm drowning and you dragged me out to sea
I've got nothing but hate in my heart now watch me tear you apart
I've got nothing but hate in my heart
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
Burn me to ashes , then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
I'll see you in hell
My head was a house and all you brought in was lies
My heart was our home and everything that lived there died
Now my world shrinks and these four walls become a cell
You told me the only way to heaven was to go through hell
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Won't you close my eyes and let me sleep through this sorrowspell
I've giving so much and I've fallen so hard, I've got nothing left to tell
Won't you close my eyes and let me sleep through this sorrowspell
Won't you close my eyes
I've heard these words before and there more meaningless now then they were then
It feels like I'm drowning and you're oceans away
It feels like I'm drowning and you dragged me out to sea
I've got nothing but hate in my heart now watch me tear you apart
I've got nothing but hate in my heart
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
Burn me to ashes , then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
I'll see you in hell
My head was a house and all you brought in was lies
My heart was our home and everything that lived there died
Now my world shrinks and these four walls become a cell
You told me the only way to heaven was to go through hell
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
Burn me to ashes, then burn the ashes
I'll carry this hate till I'm in my grave
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Sorrowspell, my world will never be the same
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
I'll see you in hell where the devil knows my name
Won't you close my eyes and let me sleep through this sorrowspell
I've giving so much and I've fallen so hard, I've got nothing left to tell
Won't you close my eyes and let me sleep through this sorrowspell
Won't you close my eyes
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