"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.
A dreamer comes, and the damages reveal
And others crossing lines on
I don't swear anymore
I wish I was, between the lover's warm
Another dream until the light
Of the needle's tone, a thousand times before
I want to create your scents
Between the fooling dance
I drown you scent through my sights
And I'm finishing, all the feeds
A lover's tune of the reaching voids
I come and deliver a note again
Dreamer I was, and dreamer I'll be
Between time and past, tonight
Any scents of favor I have ever seen
A raven, between light and darkness
An help below, oh my restlessness
Can you believe it?
Can you deliver the sky?
And you are coming up in my cries
There is a fire light in the darkness
I could never sign
Do you remember the time, when I was shy?
Do you remember the sunlight, of those arms?
The sewer sails, the sea of life
The seventh sin growing in my mind
Makes you fool as a no name in the hell
Coming in and out suffering nowhere
Out of breath, of the wealth
Of the wealth
Come and cry, above the line
Come and cry, and the lies
On the horse of tenderness
Between the equinox and the river
On the Saturday night you'll end up crossed over
And drink a lot of brewery, like others
My dreams are dying almighty
A forlorn caress made by jealousy
I could cry, never enter your dusty body
I could threat them by the moon light
Discover dreams to the fire light
And maybe the river you will cross tonight
In your eyes the frustration of the fear, of the fear
Into the grey lights
And others crossing lines on
I don't swear anymore
I wish I was, between the lover's warm
Another dream until the light
Of the needle's tone, a thousand times before
I want to create your scents
Between the fooling dance
I drown you scent through my sights
And I'm finishing, all the feeds
A lover's tune of the reaching voids
I come and deliver a note again
Dreamer I was, and dreamer I'll be
Between time and past, tonight
Any scents of favor I have ever seen
A raven, between light and darkness
An help below, oh my restlessness
Can you believe it?
Can you deliver the sky?
And you are coming up in my cries
There is a fire light in the darkness
I could never sign
Do you remember the time, when I was shy?
Do you remember the sunlight, of those arms?
The sewer sails, the sea of life
The seventh sin growing in my mind
Makes you fool as a no name in the hell
Coming in and out suffering nowhere
Out of breath, of the wealth
Of the wealth
Come and cry, above the line
Come and cry, and the lies
On the horse of tenderness
Between the equinox and the river
On the Saturday night you'll end up crossed over
And drink a lot of brewery, like others
My dreams are dying almighty
A forlorn caress made by jealousy
I could cry, never enter your dusty body
I could threat them by the moon light
Discover dreams to the fire light
And maybe the river you will cross tonight
In your eyes the frustration of the fear, of the fear
Into the grey lights
Lyrics submitted by Sygn
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