"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.
Tides of glass, return to ash.
In the dawn, we follow the path away from the sun.
Shadows cast in wake of the past.
Reaching out, into the dark and out of the light.
Crawling underneath our feet,
A river running black and green
From the heart of the gallows tree,
Where the future and our fate
Will bleed into the world below.
Stone to bear the mountain stairs.
In the night, we dance with our devils and dine with the snakes.
The dead will stare in joy and despair
Rising up, away from the earth, into the clouds.
From the eye of the Graeae we stole,
A truth that we can't unknow.
Spinning on the threads they sew
In a river of the tears that flow into the world below.
Over, under, threads of fate.
Weaving patterns, soon and late.
As in this life, so in all things
The end result, the action brings.
The fates will divide in three.
A sight that we can't unsee.
We're falling to our hands and knees
As the past and the future bleed into the world below.
In the dawn, we follow the path away from the sun.
Shadows cast in wake of the past.
Reaching out, into the dark and out of the light.
Crawling underneath our feet,
A river running black and green
From the heart of the gallows tree,
Where the future and our fate
Will bleed into the world below.
Stone to bear the mountain stairs.
In the night, we dance with our devils and dine with the snakes.
The dead will stare in joy and despair
Rising up, away from the earth, into the clouds.
From the eye of the Graeae we stole,
A truth that we can't unknow.
Spinning on the threads they sew
In a river of the tears that flow into the world below.
Over, under, threads of fate.
Weaving patterns, soon and late.
As in this life, so in all things
The end result, the action brings.
The fates will divide in three.
A sight that we can't unsee.
We're falling to our hands and knees
As the past and the future bleed into the world below.
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@zlloyd1 Don't quote me on this but I believe the song is a direct reference to Perseus who was thrown into the ocean in a chest with his mothers. I'm assuming that's the tides of glass. They were both thrown in an attempt to kill them as it was foretold Perseus would grow up to kill his grandfather. Upon arriving to the city a man tried to marry Perseus' mother and pretended to marry another women to rid himself of Perseus as he was in the way of the marriage to his mother. as he had no money he was sent on a quest to bring the head of Medusa. I think this associates to the part about dances with snakes, however it is also possible its a reference to when Medusa's blood falls and creates deadly serpents. As he ventures into the quest his siblings Athena and Hermes come to his aid and bestow him with shoes to allow him to fly a scythe and a shield to avoid looking into Medusa's eyes, so the river running black and green might be a reference to the river Styx. In order to find Medusa's location he steals the eye of the Graeae who are her sisters and slays her. On his journey back home he saves and marries Andromeda who later dies and becomes a star, which i believe is where the dead will stare in joy and despair part is playing into the mythology. He finally returns and ends up killing the man still trying to marry his mother and is then banished as king but it is his actions that bring the end result of the prophecy his grandfather was foretold.