"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.
Wake up, it's almost over
Something is taking me
Every time I'm up it kills me
Living day to day
Shock waves shatter me
I am (something) security
Get up and don't look back now, don't look back now
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Giving up, I wont stop fighting
Bring it on, it wont phase me
Any time, it makes me stronger
Living day to day
Shock waves shatter me
I am (something) security
Get up and don't look back now, don't look back now
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Going on, day to day
Stirring up the (something) sorrow
Why's life gotta be this way?
Every time I'm up it kills me
(something).. responding change?
manipulation, wrap it all around
dark, are these days
calling on something to follow!
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria, hysteria, hysteria, hysteria
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Something is taking me
Every time I'm up it kills me
Living day to day
Shock waves shatter me
I am (something) security
Get up and don't look back now, don't look back now
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Giving up, I wont stop fighting
Bring it on, it wont phase me
Any time, it makes me stronger
Living day to day
Shock waves shatter me
I am (something) security
Get up and don't look back now, don't look back now
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Going on, day to day
Stirring up the (something) sorrow
Why's life gotta be this way?
Every time I'm up it kills me
(something).. responding change?
manipulation, wrap it all around
dark, are these days
calling on something to follow!
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria, hysteria, hysteria, hysteria
We ride a dying star
across a burning sea
We're like a supernova now
The fire's burning in me
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Mass hysteria
Lyrics submitted by gothic_hobbit
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