"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.
Kootei ga hizunde mieta
Shiroi taisoogi ga mieta
Karasu ga hikuku sora
Tonda
Kuroi hane o
Sukoshi dake wakete kudasai
Sora ni nobita kaidan
Soko made te ga todokanai
Yuugure no sora wa akaku
Minna no shisen tsumetaku
Soshite ookina ishi ga
Sora kara ochite kite
Atashi o oshitsubusu
Watashi no kokoro ni wa mieta
Torinokosarete iku mono ga
Anata no iiwake ya uso wa
Nan no yaku nimo tatanai
Garakuta no yoo
Sora ni nobita kaidan
Soko made te ga todokanai
yuugure no sora wa akaku
minna no shisen tsumetaku
soshite ookina kumo ga
sora kara orite kite
atashi o kakushite iku
kigen naoshite ikiyou
sora no kirema kara koboreru
hikari ga mata ugoite kuruyo
yuugure no sora wa akaku
mou sugu ni kurete shimau
dakara tobenai tsubasa o
sutetara suteta nara
atashi wa maiagarou
dakara tobenai tsubasa o
sutetara suteta nara
atashi wa maiagarou
Shiroi taisoogi ga mieta
Karasu ga hikuku sora
Tonda
Kuroi hane o
Sukoshi dake wakete kudasai
Sora ni nobita kaidan
Soko made te ga todokanai
Yuugure no sora wa akaku
Minna no shisen tsumetaku
Soshite ookina ishi ga
Sora kara ochite kite
Atashi o oshitsubusu
Watashi no kokoro ni wa mieta
Torinokosarete iku mono ga
Anata no iiwake ya uso wa
Nan no yaku nimo tatanai
Garakuta no yoo
Sora ni nobita kaidan
Soko made te ga todokanai
yuugure no sora wa akaku
minna no shisen tsumetaku
soshite ookina kumo ga
sora kara orite kite
atashi o kakushite iku
kigen naoshite ikiyou
sora no kirema kara koboreru
hikari ga mata ugoite kuruyo
yuugure no sora wa akaku
mou sugu ni kurete shimau
dakara tobenai tsubasa o
sutetara suteta nara
atashi wa maiagarou
dakara tobenai tsubasa o
sutetara suteta nara
atashi wa maiagarou
Lyrics submitted by AidanDies
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English:
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the school playground looks distorted the white gym outfits are on display a crow flies low across the sky please stretch your black wings please stretch them out a little a staircase reaching up to the sky no hand can reach that far
the twilight sky is crimson Deaf everyone gaze is cold then a huge rock comes tumbling from the sky and it crushes me
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the twilight sky is crimson and darkness will fall very soon now that my wings can no longer fly I'll cast them off and when I do I'll walk on air and soar in the sky
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