"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.
To be kind, to be kind
To be real, to be new
To be sung by a song that's untrue
The falling sun, the fallen one
In a bed, painted blue, touching you
Listening, just listening
To the rain, to the wind, in the field
To be kind, to be kind
To be lost, in a bed, touching you
To be lost, to be lost
To be found in the sound of this room
"There are millions and millions of stars in your eyes"
To be real, to be new
To be sung by a song that's untrue
The falling sun, the fallen one
In a bed, painted blue, touching you
Listening, just listening
To the rain, to the wind, in the field
To be kind, to be kind
To be lost, in a bed, touching you
To be lost, to be lost
To be found in the sound of this room
"There are millions and millions of stars in your eyes"
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I think this song is musically from the perspective of a child listening to its caretaker (lets just say mother for the sake of convenience) singing it a lullaby, and the lyrics are said lullaby that describe everything about childhood and existence.
"To be kind, to be kind" - Mother sings her child a positive lullaby, prioritizing kindness over all. The child cannot understand the concept of kindness at this age, but is still soothed and intrigued by the melody and the sound.
"To be real, to be new" - The most obvious line in the song, the child is a newborn and as such everything seems much more macroscopic from its viewpoint. Its very existence is monumental-feeling.
"To be sung by a song that's untrue" - Gira compares the child's existence to a song, an artistic and beautiful expression of nature. The "untrue" part probably refers to existentialism, though both the child and the song exists and see different perspectives, they all ultimately mean nothing (though this is not a negative thing).
"The falling sun, the fallen one" - Not so sure about this one. It's certainly the most cryptic line in the song. Perhaps it refers to death and light "extinguishing", though I can't tell why it'd relate to the child. It also references the sun, as common on this album.
"In a bed, painted blue, touching you" - Simple, the mother is caressing her child in its crib while she sings to it.
"Listening, just listening to the rain and the wind in the field" - Again, the child's perspective is amplified. The rain and wind outside is incomprehensible to it, but they just are there. The child listens not knowing its true nature, but being consumed by it all the same. It needs to do nothing more than listen.
"To be lost in a bed, touching you, to be lost, to be found in the sound of this room" - The child is "lost" in the sense that it's surrounded by everything huge and unknowable. Even its bed seems gigantic through its perspective. It is encompassed in the sound of the astronomically (to it) huge room it sleeps in.
"There are millions and millions of stars in your eyes"
This final line can have several meanings from the way I see it.
-It is the mother singing to the child, seeing all the beauty and wonder of her creation through its eyes and seeing its future and loving it unconditionally. -It is the child viewing his mothers eyes through its own, seeing how huge and vast she is compared to it, comparable to stars in the sky. -It refers to our existence itself; within our "eyes" (our entire lives and minds) is a vast and unutterably complex web of thoughts, memories, aspirations, fears, etc. We are all our own universe.
Just my interpretation