"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.
This sunlight cutting through the open fields
Can't be communicated by radio wave
And through this flashlight keyhole memory
Receive a thousand signals and can't respond
So keep your hands to yourself
And relay the message to your friends that nothing's wrong
Reverse reception on this lifeless satellite.
Push this button.
End the transmission
So keep your hands to yourself
In this transit station reconnection to our lives
In transit like my voice cutting through this line
It's the same old song broadcasted on the radio
Saying I'm not worth your time
End the transmission
This absence is making relations come undone
It's breaking air waves I'm losing you in the transmission
Can't be communicated by radio wave
And through this flashlight keyhole memory
Receive a thousand signals and can't respond
So keep your hands to yourself
And relay the message to your friends that nothing's wrong
Reverse reception on this lifeless satellite.
Push this button.
End the transmission
So keep your hands to yourself
In this transit station reconnection to our lives
In transit like my voice cutting through this line
It's the same old song broadcasted on the radio
Saying I'm not worth your time
End the transmission
This absence is making relations come undone
It's breaking air waves I'm losing you in the transmission
Lyrics submitted by xThisDayForwardx
In Transmission Lyrics as written by Ian Kevin Curtis Bernard Sumner
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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