"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.
I want to see you with the pharaoh's curse
The apple flower doggerel while the batteries burst
And I'm out in the city in the typical noise
With the suntan ellipse and the filigree of energy
What you want and what you need
Now I'm down on my knees with a pocket full of widows
You can do it down here what you never did there
When you feel so untethered from the broken veneer
Don't tell nobody I'm here
Don't tell nobody I'm here
Now I'm far from the world in your seventh heaven
Now I'm far from the world in your seventh heaven
Now you got to let me know
Now you got to let me know
Now you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it down, take it down with me
A second language, a burden of hope
I've seen it all come clean like a guillotine rose
A photograph, a lowlife laugh
We'll shoot for the empire, land in the dust pile
I want to wake up in the shadow of a fever pitch
With the gold glass heart sending messages
I hear the voice over the phone, she pauses, says
"I'll never, never, never go"
Oh can I stay here with you?
Oh can I stay here with you?
Now I'm dead to the world in your seventh heaven
Now I'm dead to the world in your seventh heaven
Now you gotta let me know
Now you got to let me go
Now you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go
I'm gonna take it with me
Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her
Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her
So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky
So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky
Up to the seventh heaven
To your seventh heaven
So let it rise, rise, rise
To the highest height in the satellite sky
Now I'm starting to fall from your seventh heaven
Now I'm starting to fall from your seventh heaven
Now you gotta let me know (gotta let me know)
Now you got to let me go (gotta let me go)
Now you gotta let me know (gotta let me know)
Or you got to let me go (gotta let me go)
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
(Seventh heaven) love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
(Seventh heaven) love a love a love a love
The apple flower doggerel while the batteries burst
And I'm out in the city in the typical noise
With the suntan ellipse and the filigree of energy
What you want and what you need
Now I'm down on my knees with a pocket full of widows
You can do it down here what you never did there
When you feel so untethered from the broken veneer
Don't tell nobody I'm here
Don't tell nobody I'm here
Now I'm far from the world in your seventh heaven
Now I'm far from the world in your seventh heaven
Now you got to let me know
Now you got to let me know
Now you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it with me
I'm gonna take it down, take it down with me
A second language, a burden of hope
I've seen it all come clean like a guillotine rose
A photograph, a lowlife laugh
We'll shoot for the empire, land in the dust pile
I want to wake up in the shadow of a fever pitch
With the gold glass heart sending messages
I hear the voice over the phone, she pauses, says
"I'll never, never, never go"
Oh can I stay here with you?
Oh can I stay here with you?
Now I'm dead to the world in your seventh heaven
Now I'm dead to the world in your seventh heaven
Now you gotta let me know
Now you got to let me go
Now you got to let me know
Or you got to let me go
I'm gonna take it with me
Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her
Someday there might be something better
You can change your mind but you can't forget her
So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky
So let it rise to the highest high in the satellite sky
Up to the seventh heaven
To your seventh heaven
So let it rise, rise, rise
To the highest height in the satellite sky
Now I'm starting to fall from your seventh heaven
Now I'm starting to fall from your seventh heaven
Now you gotta let me know (gotta let me know)
Now you got to let me go (gotta let me go)
Now you gotta let me know (gotta let me know)
Or you got to let me go (gotta let me go)
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
(Seventh heaven) love a love a love a love
Love a love a love a love
(Seventh heaven) love a love a love a love
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Seventh Heaven Lyrics as written by Gregory Kurstin Beck David Campbell
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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