"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.
Love leads the lines of love
In circles and angles
Love runs deep like a tunnel
With a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflections
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps
Running inside you
Cycles of fears
With the longing and tears
Letting out the
Needs and laughter
Of sunshine, love shine
Touching the fibers of
The feeling inside you
Letting out the things you hide
Oh, yeah
Need leads the lines of
Love in circles and angles
Need runs deep like a
Tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflections
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps
Running inside you
Cylinders of hope
Turning and yearning
Into pendulums of
Weary hesitation
Contemplation
Of the angles and rhymes
And the triangle lines
The feeling touching
Mine with time
Want leads the lines of love
In circles and angles
Want runs deep like a
Tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflection
Of the angles and rhymes
Of the circles and lines
With the tunnels of
Love running over
Taking the mind and triangle rhyme
And twisting it to fill the cup
Of sunshine, love shine
Touching the fibers of
The feeling inside you
Letting out the things you hide
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflection
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that
Keeps running inside you
Cylinders of hope
Turning and yearning
Into pendulums of
Weary hesitation
Taking the fibers
Weaving in and out my heart
And making all my love
Grow deeper
Angles and rhymes
And the circles and lines
With the tunnels of
Love running over
Taking the line and
Triangle rhyme and twisting it
To bend the mind
In all directions
It's love and want and
Need and all those things
Tearing you apart
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In circles and angles
Love runs deep like a tunnel
With a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflections
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps
Running inside you
Cycles of fears
With the longing and tears
Letting out the
Needs and laughter
Of sunshine, love shine
Touching the fibers of
The feeling inside you
Letting out the things you hide
Oh, yeah
Need leads the lines of
Love in circles and angles
Need runs deep like a
Tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflections
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps
Running inside you
Cylinders of hope
Turning and yearning
Into pendulums of
Weary hesitation
Contemplation
Of the angles and rhymes
And the triangle lines
The feeling touching
Mine with time
Want leads the lines of love
In circles and angles
Want runs deep like a
Tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflection
Of the angles and rhymes
Of the circles and lines
With the tunnels of
Love running over
Taking the mind and triangle rhyme
And twisting it to fill the cup
Of sunshine, love shine
Touching the fibers of
The feeling inside you
Letting out the things you hide
That touches the heart
In many directions
Moving the mind
In silent reflection
Of the lines that touch
The corners and fibers
Of the feeling that
Keeps running inside you
Cylinders of hope
Turning and yearning
Into pendulums of
Weary hesitation
Taking the fibers
Weaving in and out my heart
And making all my love
Grow deeper
Angles and rhymes
And the circles and lines
With the tunnels of
Love running over
Taking the line and
Triangle rhyme and twisting it
To bend the mind
In all directions
It's love and want and
Need and all those things
Tearing you apart
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Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes Lyrics as written by Dorothea Joyce
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