"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.
Shapes still melt into the snow
Looking down at scattered bones
I used to keep a slender hope
Until they spread above the stone
Until they spread above the stone
I pulled the trigger by mistake
Floundering at the aftermath
Slowly recognize the scale
We will be ephemeral
We will be ephemeral
Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, then what it used to be
Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, then what it used to be
Fact isn't what you see
Not what it used to be
I'm flowing like black water
To us, insurgency
To us, insurgency
Looking down at scattered bones
I used to keep a slender hope
Until they spread above the stone
Until they spread above the stone
I pulled the trigger by mistake
Floundering at the aftermath
Slowly recognize the scale
We will be ephemeral
We will be ephemeral
Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, then what it used to be
Fact isn't what you see
Not anymore, then what it used to be
Fact isn't what you see
Not what it used to be
I'm flowing like black water
To us, insurgency
To us, insurgency
Lyrics submitted by Ferrisybuga, edited by darknshine
Black Water Lyrics as written by Patrick Christensen Alfredo Carlos Nogueira
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Jewdiful has it mostly right except for the last lines, it goes exactly like this:
Shapes still melt into the smoke 
Looking down at scattered bones 
I used to keep a slender hope 
'Til they spread above the stone 
'Til they spread above the stone


I pulled the trigger by mistake 
Floundering at the aftermath 
Slowly recognize the scale
 We will be ephemeral 
We will be ephemeral


Fact Isn't what you see Not anymore
, what it used to be

, Fact isn't what you see Not what it used to be
I'm flowing in blackwater, to another surging sea to another surging sea
@mjc1423 "that is what she'll see, nothing more than what used to be."
these lyrics are all wrong. this is important, vastly so, for the context, symbology, and meaning of the song.
corrected:
Shapes still melt into the smoke 
Looking down at scattered bones 
I used to keep a slender hope 
'Til they spread above the stone 
'Til they spread above the stone


I pulled the trigger by mistake 
Floundering at the aftermath 
Slowly recognize the scale
 We will be ephemeral 
We will be ephemeral


Fact Isn't what you see Not anymore
, what it used to be

, Fact isn't what you see Not what it used to be
I'm flowing with black water 
Into a loss of surgency 
Into a loss of surgency
oops, it's supposed to be "'Til they spread ABOVE the stone"
you're more right then the original, but still wrong, the last part is: <br /> <br /> "I'm flowing in blackwater,<br /> to another surging sea"
surgency isnt a word but insurgency (rebellion/revolt) is; which makes more sense...i think
Surgency is in fact a word. It basically means cleverness.
you could be right about the lyrics, it's so hard to tell sometimes :)
but "surgency" is indeed a word. it's a term associated with the Big 5 framework of personality traits - "surgency" specifically being a trait of positive emotional reactivity/affect (put simply, an optimistic, happy outlook).
personally, i hear "into a loss of surgency," based on a definite "s" sound right before "of surgency," or "surging sea" as you hear it.
i mean, it doesn't matter really of course. i'm not here to be right, everyone hears songs in their own way and develops meanings that are personal to them :)