"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.
Your pupils are almost always pinned
Fly like you will the shape of the wind
Skating on ice at once thinning and thinned
You wait to fall through to do it again
Your eyes are like pins stabbing my neck
Vampire needs on trains that you wreck
Your heart is a ghost or barely a speck
Play every game and load every deck
Your pupils so small go high to the end
Internal worlds fall and dreams just descend
Disguised all the time an enemy's friend
Relationships die and never will mend
Under your skull clouds of pure bliss
As you give in to the vampire kiss
A cut in your heart appears on yer wrist
Giving to time the denial of this
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
Pills just dissolve in bellys of dust
And float to your eyes emotion you trust
Like Bob Dylan said life is sad and a bust
But to get by you face what you must
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
All your lies can't save you now
A selfish world that broke somehow
Over the moon you jump like a cow
As leaches of thoughts squirm under your brow
Tricks licks kicks and dicks
All get bought and sold and mix
Words break bones like stones and sticks
As you run out of veins to fix
Shattered eyes still smiles wide
Under clouds you love to hide
You'd rather die than swallow pride
As walls build up and up inside
But no surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
That's right
A cloudy demon with angel breath
Floating forward backward death
Nothing to gain and nothing left
Just the evidence of theft
From yourself you stole what's true
If it could work I'd do it too
Follow the lonely line of you
Until there's no way to come back through
Bleeding eyes and holy toes
Blissful fingers where no one goes
The things you've done no one knows
But what you hide still always shows
Touching on epiphany
But no surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
Follow you or follow me
Follow you or follow me
No surrender comes for free
If they could see the things you see
No surrender comes for free
If they could see the things you see
No surrender comes for free
Follow you or follow me
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
That's right
Fly like you will the shape of the wind
Skating on ice at once thinning and thinned
You wait to fall through to do it again
Your eyes are like pins stabbing my neck
Vampire needs on trains that you wreck
Your heart is a ghost or barely a speck
Play every game and load every deck
Your pupils so small go high to the end
Internal worlds fall and dreams just descend
Disguised all the time an enemy's friend
Relationships die and never will mend
Under your skull clouds of pure bliss
As you give in to the vampire kiss
A cut in your heart appears on yer wrist
Giving to time the denial of this
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
Pills just dissolve in bellys of dust
And float to your eyes emotion you trust
Like Bob Dylan said life is sad and a bust
But to get by you face what you must
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
All your lies can't save you now
A selfish world that broke somehow
Over the moon you jump like a cow
As leaches of thoughts squirm under your brow
Tricks licks kicks and dicks
All get bought and sold and mix
Words break bones like stones and sticks
As you run out of veins to fix
Shattered eyes still smiles wide
Under clouds you love to hide
You'd rather die than swallow pride
As walls build up and up inside
But no surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
That's right
A cloudy demon with angel breath
Floating forward backward death
Nothing to gain and nothing left
Just the evidence of theft
From yourself you stole what's true
If it could work I'd do it too
Follow the lonely line of you
Until there's no way to come back through
Bleeding eyes and holy toes
Blissful fingers where no one goes
The things you've done no one knows
But what you hide still always shows
Touching on epiphany
But no surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
Follow you or follow me
Follow you or follow me
No surrender comes for free
If they could see the things you see
No surrender comes for free
If they could see the things you see
No surrender comes for free
Follow you or follow me
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
No surrender comes for free
That's right
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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