"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 will carry you and give you life
I will cover you and show you the way
It's a sequence that you never learned
It's a lesson I will never forget
I can hear you in the overtones
Just an echo of the promise we made
Change the future, we can travel time
Or make us blind so we can never look back
We can never look back
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
I communicate in simple strings (take your time)
I'm the only one who gave you the truth (speak to me)
Once you leave me you were really gone (far and near)
Give me something to remember you by (always be)
All that's here is what you left behind (majesty)
Slowly moving in the back of my mind (can't forget)
Take a moment to remember me (and our ways)
Make me blind so I don't ever look back
Only in your name
I will ne'er be free
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
I will cover you and show you the way
It's a sequence that you never learned
It's a lesson I will never forget
I can hear you in the overtones
Just an echo of the promise we made
Change the future, we can travel time
Or make us blind so we can never look back
We can never look back
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
I communicate in simple strings (take your time)
I'm the only one who gave you the truth (speak to me)
Once you leave me you were really gone (far and near)
Give me something to remember you by (always be)
All that's here is what you left behind (majesty)
Slowly moving in the back of my mind (can't forget)
Take a moment to remember me (and our ways)
Make me blind so I don't ever look back
Only in your name
I will ne'er be free
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
I'm the night-sky (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the fire in your eyes (ha, ha, ha)
And I want you (ha, ha, ha)
Now and for all time
I'm the cold heart (ha, ha, ha)
I'm the secret that you hide (ha, ha, ha)
I'll be listening until you decide
Lyrics submitted by mathasonet, edited by Emzee4life
Night Sky Lyrics as written by Lauren Eve Mayberry Iain Andrew Cook
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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It sounds like a conversation with "God" to me.
God- I will carry you and give you life I will cover you and show you the way It's a sequence that you never learned It's a lesson I will never forget
Her - I can hear you in the overtones Just an echo of the promise we made Change the future, we can travel time Or make us blind so we can never look back We can never look back
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