"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.
I cannot pretend like I'm happy in ignorance
Like this, this is bliss
And I can't be content with all these questions
Cause no one can answer them.
I've had enough
Tongues and whispers
Funeral song
I've been waiting on the world to sink
I've been waiting on the world to sink
There's only disappointment outside of these walls
So don't go sneaking, oh don't go searching for a door to the outside
And I've lost all faith
Cause it feels like such a lie
How can we find our way when we're following the blind?
How can we expect to lives our lives when we're all just born to die?
Alone or not, I feel like I'm awake for the first time
Will you
Spare me
If words could move the masses (The masses)
Divide and conquer the truth
I watched you break a promise
I watched you live a life of sacrifice
You've become such a waste, such a waste
When the world burns,
I'll still see it
Your demise
It's written in our blood
So wave goodbye to the hope we were born with,
And say farewell to the chance of surviving
This holocaust of love
This age of lost souls
And I'm holding on with both hands
And I'm never letting go
I'm never letting go
I'm never letting go
I want you to feel fire on your skin and burn like I did
Cause I'm never letting go
No I'm never letting go
No I'm never letting go
Like this, this is bliss
And I can't be content with all these questions
Cause no one can answer them.
I've had enough
Tongues and whispers
Funeral song
I've been waiting on the world to sink
I've been waiting on the world to sink
There's only disappointment outside of these walls
So don't go sneaking, oh don't go searching for a door to the outside
And I've lost all faith
Cause it feels like such a lie
How can we find our way when we're following the blind?
How can we expect to lives our lives when we're all just born to die?
Alone or not, I feel like I'm awake for the first time
Will you
Spare me
If words could move the masses (The masses)
Divide and conquer the truth
I watched you break a promise
I watched you live a life of sacrifice
You've become such a waste, such a waste
When the world burns,
I'll still see it
Your demise
It's written in our blood
So wave goodbye to the hope we were born with,
And say farewell to the chance of surviving
This holocaust of love
This age of lost souls
And I'm holding on with both hands
And I'm never letting go
I'm never letting go
I'm never letting go
I want you to feel fire on your skin and burn like I did
Cause I'm never letting go
No I'm never letting go
No I'm never letting go
Lyrics submitted by IXPTV
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