"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.
The time has come
Some shapes loom up in the Darkness
The graveyard rises again...
The dirges of the wolves resound so
sinister
A mystic fog awakes the Dead
The stillness of the tombstones
Is broken by a breath
The night of the resurrected Dead
Oh no, no, don't try to escape your
ruthless Fate
They are the obscure silent grim
Creatures from the Grave
I hear They're coming to get you
Blind eyes that point at you!
They're rising to get you
Look out, 'cause They'll come very
soon...
The moon is quickly faded
The earth now smells of Death
The tombstones move, grim creatures live
again...
I hear They're coming to get you
Blind eyes that point at you!
They're rising to get you
Look out, 'cause They'll come very
soon...
Oh no, no, don't try to escape your
ruthless Fate
They are the obscure silent grim
Creatures from the Grave
Some shapes loom up in the Darkness
The graveyard rises again...
The dirges of the wolves resound so
sinister
A mystic fog awakes the Dead
The stillness of the tombstones
Is broken by a breath
The night of the resurrected Dead
Oh no, no, don't try to escape your
ruthless Fate
They are the obscure silent grim
Creatures from the Grave
I hear They're coming to get you
Blind eyes that point at you!
They're rising to get you
Look out, 'cause They'll come very
soon...
The moon is quickly faded
The earth now smells of Death
The tombstones move, grim creatures live
again...
I hear They're coming to get you
Blind eyes that point at you!
They're rising to get you
Look out, 'cause They'll come very
soon...
Oh no, no, don't try to escape your
ruthless Fate
They are the obscure silent grim
Creatures from the Grave
Lyrics submitted by static111
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