"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.
The flames grow high in your eyes
Your tempers hot and it's on the rise
Furious storm builds deep inside
And the universe no place to hide
You watch the world fall to it's knees
Full of sins as they beg for peace
But your blood runs cold through your veins
You only laugh when you're in pain
Sunshine through the tree tops
Moonshine cross the sea
The wind blows through my hair
And takes my soul from me
Is the world near it's end
My god what's 'round the band
Will you fall to your knees and pray
When hell; it heads your way
If the world could only feel the love
That's within us and up above
We'd be glad to live and that we're alive
Instead we worry how we're to die yeah!
Your tempers hot and it's on the rise
Furious storm builds deep inside
And the universe no place to hide
You watch the world fall to it's knees
Full of sins as they beg for peace
But your blood runs cold through your veins
You only laugh when you're in pain
Sunshine through the tree tops
Moonshine cross the sea
The wind blows through my hair
And takes my soul from me
Is the world near it's end
My god what's 'round the band
Will you fall to your knees and pray
When hell; it heads your way
If the world could only feel the love
That's within us and up above
We'd be glad to live and that we're alive
Instead we worry how we're to die yeah!
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Dying World Lyrics as written by Victor D. Griffin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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