"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.
Between regret and despair
Between faith and fear
Between longing and necessity
In the shadow lands
In the shadow lands
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
Between the looking and the seeing
Between the hurting and the weeping
Between the waking and the sleeping
Are you sleeping
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I am the queen of dreams
Banished to a shadow prison
But I've watched and waited
As your powers have risen
And now my loneliness can be undone
For the fates have delivered you
My one
With me alone you have nothing to hide
Confide in me
Inside of me the universe awaits
Unwind, we'll eclipse this mortal mind
The gift you've be given binds you to me
With spider silk threads across the galaxy
Between faith and fear
Between longing and necessity
In the shadow lands
In the shadow lands
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
Between the looking and the seeing
Between the hurting and the weeping
Between the waking and the sleeping
Are you sleeping
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
Turn off the dark
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I am the queen of dreams
Banished to a shadow prison
But I've watched and waited
As your powers have risen
And now my loneliness can be undone
For the fates have delivered you
My one
With me alone you have nothing to hide
Confide in me
Inside of me the universe awaits
Unwind, we'll eclipse this mortal mind
The gift you've be given binds you to me
With spider silk threads across the galaxy
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Turn Off the Dark Lyrics as written by Paul David Hewson Dave Evans
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