"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.
On your eyelids
Orbits lighted
Stories in the lines across your face
Thought and reason
Reappearing
Holding out your hands against the race
And I didn’t think I would stay for this
And you didn’t think I would go
But now we’re alone in the atmosphere
A place I’ll never know
And nothing goes unspoken
When the colours unfold
Cuz now we’re alone in the atmosphere
Oh
And I realised
This is paradise
Almost paradise
Here in paradise
And my heart was taken by the surprise
This is paradise
This is paradise
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
Towards the evening
Shadows kneeling
Down for all the triumph that we’ve made
So paint your solace
And hold what’s honest
Glory doesn’t come for those who wait
And I didn’t think I would stay for this
And you didn’t think I would go
But now we’re alone in the atmosphere
A place I’ll never know
And nothing goes unspoken
When the colours unfold
Cuz now we’re alone in the atmosphere
Oh
And I realised
This is paradise
Almost paradise
Here in paradise
And my heart was taken by the surprise
This is paradise
This is paradise
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
Orbits lighted
Stories in the lines across your face
Thought and reason
Reappearing
Holding out your hands against the race
And I didn’t think I would stay for this
And you didn’t think I would go
But now we’re alone in the atmosphere
A place I’ll never know
And nothing goes unspoken
When the colours unfold
Cuz now we’re alone in the atmosphere
Oh
And I realised
This is paradise
Almost paradise
Here in paradise
And my heart was taken by the surprise
This is paradise
This is paradise
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
Towards the evening
Shadows kneeling
Down for all the triumph that we’ve made
So paint your solace
And hold what’s honest
Glory doesn’t come for those who wait
And I didn’t think I would stay for this
And you didn’t think I would go
But now we’re alone in the atmosphere
A place I’ll never know
And nothing goes unspoken
When the colours unfold
Cuz now we’re alone in the atmosphere
Oh
And I realised
This is paradise
Almost paradise
Here in paradise
And my heart was taken by the surprise
This is paradise
This is paradise
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
And now we’re alone in the atmosphere and I’m fading
Here we are
Here we are
Lyrics submitted by SukkaFish92
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