"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.
A million things
I want to say
But I shield my face
and turn away
Swallowing my words
Silenced by shame
A million tears
I want to cry
But I shield my face
and dry my eyes
Swallowing my hurt
Breaking inside
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
A million things
I wish you would say
Even if I fall
that you will stay
And none of my flaws
Can turn you away
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't turn away from my side
I am not that which I fight
Every tear I cry
Burns a way through my eyes
where I see through my lies
Every tear I cry
makes trails in the ice
where I am warm inside
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't away from my side
I am not that - which I fight
I want to say
But I shield my face
and turn away
Swallowing my words
Silenced by shame
A million tears
I want to cry
But I shield my face
and dry my eyes
Swallowing my hurt
Breaking inside
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
A million things
I wish you would say
Even if I fall
that you will stay
And none of my flaws
Can turn you away
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't turn away from my side
I am not that which I fight
Every tear I cry
Burns a way through my eyes
where I see through my lies
Every tear I cry
makes trails in the ice
where I am warm inside
See straight into me
Just look beyond the tears in my eyes
Please stay here with me
Just hold me as I bleed myself dry
Like a circle around me
Is the prison of this boundary
I need a storm to break it down
Shield your eyes from the fire light
But please don't away from my side
I am not that - which I fight
Lyrics submitted by Opethfanatic89
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