"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.
Shut out from this ancient truth
We are blind inside
Migrant souls from a distant world?
There's an absence of knowledge
Reaching out for the pulse of our own
Now the time has come to awaken the prophecy
Buried underneath the veil of illusion
Given a life of freedom, only to neglect what we should feel
Tortured by negative consciousness
Feeling our disorder hit the froggin' wall
Escape some way
Awake!
Hallucinating desire
Chase the obscene
Travel these wonders far beyond
Burn down the walls that bind you to this cage, or be detained
For once, a glimpse at freedom would feel divine
A break from this feeble old mind
My fucking mind!
Negative scenes are just the projection of our own dark fear
Playing the victim is not what will bring us back to salvation
Back to reality
What is it they all seek?
Be it the wealth of the throne?
Live your life as a drone!
Reaching out for the pulse of our own
So high above what they all seen to know
Subliminal signs; a message that's unrefined
Soaring above what they all seem to know
Someday replay the purgatory life you lead
Taste the obscene,
Travel these wonders far beyond
Burn down the walls that bind you to this cage, or be detained
We are blind inside
Migrant souls from a distant world?
There's an absence of knowledge
Reaching out for the pulse of our own
Now the time has come to awaken the prophecy
Buried underneath the veil of illusion
Given a life of freedom, only to neglect what we should feel
Tortured by negative consciousness
Feeling our disorder hit the froggin' wall
Escape some way
Awake!
Hallucinating desire
Chase the obscene
Travel these wonders far beyond
Burn down the walls that bind you to this cage, or be detained
For once, a glimpse at freedom would feel divine
A break from this feeble old mind
My fucking mind!
Negative scenes are just the projection of our own dark fear
Playing the victim is not what will bring us back to salvation
Back to reality
What is it they all seek?
Be it the wealth of the throne?
Live your life as a drone!
Reaching out for the pulse of our own
So high above what they all seen to know
Subliminal signs; a message that's unrefined
Soaring above what they all seem to know
Someday replay the purgatory life you lead
Taste the obscene,
Travel these wonders far beyond
Burn down the walls that bind you to this cage, or be detained
Lyrics submitted by Mattydrummer
Froggin' Bullfish Lyrics as written by Jake Bowen Adam Getgood
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