"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.
Turn to the right Nobody to relate to, loneliness sets in
Turn to the left Everybody but me in animated conversation
Want to run away From this room that fills me with emptiness
What am I laughing about? What am I feeling? What is it that brings me here?
Live in solitude…
Nobody to depend on since I chose solitude for myself
Made excuses, tried to act cool and tried to soothe myself
Too much pride but can’t do anything, that’s me
Left behind, squashed and screaming
Always swallowed how I really felt, hid away in a corner of my heart
Not knowing how to show my true self, I’d been waiting for a helping hand
Live in solitude…
Been searching for the light in pitch darkness
Unsuccessfully waiting for an answer I was freezing
But surely I’d stand straight again if I were needed
Breaking away from that searing pain, I always ran out of fear
Live in solitude…
Been searching for the light in pitch darkness
Unsuccessfully waiting for an answer I was freezing
But surely I’d stand straight again if I were needed
Breaking away from that searing pain, I always ran out of fear
A ray of light, my hope Give me warmth…
Turn to the left Everybody but me in animated conversation
Want to run away From this room that fills me with emptiness
What am I laughing about? What am I feeling? What is it that brings me here?
Live in solitude…
Nobody to depend on since I chose solitude for myself
Made excuses, tried to act cool and tried to soothe myself
Too much pride but can’t do anything, that’s me
Left behind, squashed and screaming
Always swallowed how I really felt, hid away in a corner of my heart
Not knowing how to show my true self, I’d been waiting for a helping hand
Live in solitude…
Been searching for the light in pitch darkness
Unsuccessfully waiting for an answer I was freezing
But surely I’d stand straight again if I were needed
Breaking away from that searing pain, I always ran out of fear
Live in solitude…
Been searching for the light in pitch darkness
Unsuccessfully waiting for an answer I was freezing
But surely I’d stand straight again if I were needed
Breaking away from that searing pain, I always ran out of fear
A ray of light, my hope Give me warmth…
Lyrics submitted by SoriofFantasy
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