"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.
We are the Survivors
The eternal survivors
Androgynous energies
Travelling through time
Particle Accelerators
Morality Degenerators
Dadata Disseminators
Cyclotron attenuators
Hyperspatial Conflagrators
MEST Integrators
Well your neutron bomb neutralised your history
Wiped cancer from the Earth, and mystery
Now we're pushing over concrete
Blowing up the rockery
Watching the garden
Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow
We all know where the flowers went today
Media explosion blew them all away
After the thunder
Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow
Post future reality, it's a better real world
Post future reality, it's a real better world
Post future super-reality, it's a real super world
Post holocaust hilarity, it's a super real world
Post future surreality, it's sure a surreal world
Post future surreality, it's a real surreal world
Tell me Doc Spock have you got all your answers
Ephemeral vision recalling the dancers
Picking up the pieces
In a progress picture
Taking ?????? to his ??????
Letting the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Pieces of the omniversal zoo
But will we survive?
we always do
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
The eternal survivors
Androgynous energies
Travelling through time
Particle Accelerators
Morality Degenerators
Dadata Disseminators
Cyclotron attenuators
Hyperspatial Conflagrators
MEST Integrators
Well your neutron bomb neutralised your history
Wiped cancer from the Earth, and mystery
Now we're pushing over concrete
Blowing up the rockery
Watching the garden
Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow
We all know where the flowers went today
Media explosion blew them all away
After the thunder
Letting the grass grow
Letting the grass grow
Post future reality, it's a better real world
Post future reality, it's a real better world
Post future super-reality, it's a real super world
Post holocaust hilarity, it's a super real world
Post future surreality, it's sure a surreal world
Post future surreality, it's a real surreal world
Tell me Doc Spock have you got all your answers
Ephemeral vision recalling the dancers
Picking up the pieces
In a progress picture
Taking ?????? to his ??????
Letting the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Pieces of the omniversal zoo
But will we survive?
we always do
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Watching the grass grow
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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