"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.
Do you feel the way you hate
Do you hate the way you feel
Always closest to the flame
Ever closer to the blade
I am poison crazy lush
Built these hands to lift me up
We are servants of our formulaic ways
I'm screaming daisies
From fourteen miles away
I've got my own time
Got it all today
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind
Limbo this and limbo that
You were this and you were that
Ever know that what you fear is what you find
This Indian summer
I signed my life away
There's a greedy fly in here
And I fly away
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind
Do you hate the way you feel
Always closest to the flame
Ever closer to the blade
I am poison crazy lush
Built these hands to lift me up
We are servants of our formulaic ways
I'm screaming daisies
From fourteen miles away
I've got my own time
Got it all today
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind
Limbo this and limbo that
You were this and you were that
Ever know that what you fear is what you find
This Indian summer
I signed my life away
There's a greedy fly in here
And I fly away
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind
Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind
Lyrics submitted by Moondragon, edited by Donaldson
Greedy Fly Lyrics as written by Gavin Rossdale
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You see someone always standing at the edge with their eyes closed, wanting so badly to gain something. Little do they know the ground is falling out from under them, stepping over the edge. You however stand back and watch, with a certain knowledge, yet a certain carefree, dreamless aura surrounding you. Losing your mind, and in the heat of the moment, you sign it all away. Now you and your mind is gone, floating aimlessly, still seeing that someone unsteadily hovering at the edge, and searching for help to find this mind. You're now further away from who you see and want to reach, you can't though. Only they can make the choice to extend out to the extended. This defeats the question or rather demand to make up your mind and the answer needing to find some help. This presents a double issue. Servants to our own causes. Conflicting eachothers causes. They've lost their minds.
And I've lost mind. The realities of loss and egoistic value.
In depth and unnecessary.
May be confusing but that's what it said to me.
I'm sexy.