"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.
Moisten the parched throat
Quaff red tap water
The voices mutter
End any far eaves
No glass windows
The figure of our eiji
But the daughter of black-held
What is far Yuku
Remove remove all desires die out, contrary to life and
Place the end of the beginning is not the precious life blood of this nation
Severe punishment to get back in decent blast hatred religious hatred
This chain of events not stop knowingly reckless, meaningless
As the years rolled by, but only a glimpse of hell to be alive Requiem
Saredo Jin Su people who will burn like the others that want to live for
Not leave anything
Irrevocable dazzling smile smile
Cry sour without leaving a trace
Sound of despair in parched earths one love
Black is the daughter of rubble and debris constitutes a maze or anything I went up to
Melt off the bone and the bone but also to have died long time ago
Beg one's life worth a mind to ignore the meaningless slaughter man appears
Nakunatta bemoan the lost time by late
As the years rolled by, but only a glimpse of hell to be alive Requiem
Saredo Jin Su people who will burn like the others that want to live for
Red sound
Not leave anything
In place in the sun also the distorted
No matter how good you are at laughing
Friendly smile dazzling smile
If everyone is happy because it is remade
My thing is I can not stop fighting
Now sing the song of the smiling
Quaff red tap water
The voices mutter
End any far eaves
No glass windows
The figure of our eiji
But the daughter of black-held
What is far Yuku
Remove remove all desires die out, contrary to life and
Place the end of the beginning is not the precious life blood of this nation
Severe punishment to get back in decent blast hatred religious hatred
This chain of events not stop knowingly reckless, meaningless
As the years rolled by, but only a glimpse of hell to be alive Requiem
Saredo Jin Su people who will burn like the others that want to live for
Not leave anything
Irrevocable dazzling smile smile
Cry sour without leaving a trace
Sound of despair in parched earths one love
Black is the daughter of rubble and debris constitutes a maze or anything I went up to
Melt off the bone and the bone but also to have died long time ago
Beg one's life worth a mind to ignore the meaningless slaughter man appears
Nakunatta bemoan the lost time by late
As the years rolled by, but only a glimpse of hell to be alive Requiem
Saredo Jin Su people who will burn like the others that want to live for
Red sound
Not leave anything
In place in the sun also the distorted
No matter how good you are at laughing
Friendly smile dazzling smile
If everyone is happy because it is remade
My thing is I can not stop fighting
Now sing the song of the smiling
Lyrics submitted by Lichery
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