"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.
How quick the seasons change
The leaves turned from green to grey
A flickering Apparition hovers above
So familiar
Yet so distant
Preserved in age
Icey hands support a somber face
Like a curse of immortality
Father time mocks me
Through grave and tomb
Past valley and precipice
Emerges the ghost of retribution
The horizon burns
Set light by kin and blood
A snake amongst us
Has soured this soil
Sometimes I hope you aren't looking down on me
To witness what I've become
Through time you will see what blinds you
Beholder of all light
Turn back the stone
To your slumber return
Suspended on a tide of obscurity
A wraith missing a crown
It almost feels like
Time is standing still
Yet somehow time
Has drained me of my youth
The years I've waited,
Have all but slipped away,
Torn from me
Father time forever mocks me
I have become,
I have become powerless,
Powerless
I have become,
I have become so emotionless
Through time you will see what blinds you
Beholder of all light
Turn back the stone
To your slumber return
The leaves turned from green to grey
A flickering Apparition hovers above
So familiar
Yet so distant
Preserved in age
Icey hands support a somber face
Like a curse of immortality
Father time mocks me
Through grave and tomb
Past valley and precipice
Emerges the ghost of retribution
The horizon burns
Set light by kin and blood
A snake amongst us
Has soured this soil
Sometimes I hope you aren't looking down on me
To witness what I've become
Through time you will see what blinds you
Beholder of all light
Turn back the stone
To your slumber return
Suspended on a tide of obscurity
A wraith missing a crown
It almost feels like
Time is standing still
Yet somehow time
Has drained me of my youth
The years I've waited,
Have all but slipped away,
Torn from me
Father time forever mocks me
I have become,
I have become powerless,
Powerless
I have become,
I have become so emotionless
Through time you will see what blinds you
Beholder of all light
Turn back the stone
To your slumber return
Lyrics submitted by HASJ
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