"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.
While passing through the clouds of diamond dust
As two mock suns arise beside our one
The sundogs guide the way towards the east
And set behind the valley of calm trees
The destination
Unfamiliar sands
Amongst the ice fog
A DC-8 awaits
Our means of travel
To visionary worlds
Let us imagine
Down in the valley the calm trees are swaying in time (we cant avert our eyes)
Down in the valley the flowers are food for the mind (no sign of passing time)
Over the hills where the mountains are tumbling down (a place of natural wonder)
Visions are clear as we notice the three suns align
Upon arrival
The dust and deserts drone
And no resistance
Could keep us from all time
There is no notion
In visionary worlds
Let us imagine
Traveling over the valley we feel the breeze
Taking in everything that there is to be seen
The suns in the distance are moments away from the dream
As two mock suns arise beside our one
The sundogs guide the way towards the east
And set behind the valley of calm trees
The destination
Unfamiliar sands
Amongst the ice fog
A DC-8 awaits
Our means of travel
To visionary worlds
Let us imagine
Down in the valley the calm trees are swaying in time (we cant avert our eyes)
Down in the valley the flowers are food for the mind (no sign of passing time)
Over the hills where the mountains are tumbling down (a place of natural wonder)
Visions are clear as we notice the three suns align
Upon arrival
The dust and deserts drone
And no resistance
Could keep us from all time
There is no notion
In visionary worlds
Let us imagine
Traveling over the valley we feel the breeze
Taking in everything that there is to be seen
The suns in the distance are moments away from the dream
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I know about the first part..its about the Freemason's tracing board. google it(images) and you'll undertsand. here it is actually- christian-restoration.com/fmasonry/images/1st%20tracing%20board.gif
while passing through the clouds of diamond dust- 'clouds of diamond dust' refer to the vertical clouds of the tracing board.
as two mock suns arise beside our one- the two mock suns are the two solstice suns that appear one on each side of the bigger main sun-'our one'
'our one' is the bigger sun in the middle and also the portal to ''heaven''. a ladder leads up to it.
the sun-dogs guide the way towards the east- the sundogs(mock suns) are in fact on the east side of the tracing board.
visions are clear as we notice the three suns align- when the three suns align, there is a beginning of change into a New Age.
and set behind the valley of calm trees- i think that the valley of calm trees is in this different world that they find when they enter the bigger sun..the one in between the two ‘’mock suns’’. maybe the rest of the song is their description of that world..i don’t know. 'unfamiliar sands,.. visionary worlds, no sign of passing time'...all these descriptions of a different world
you may want to read these en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prysmos soulsofdistortion.nl/2012_freemasons_revelations.html