"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.
Darkness chokes my emotions. Your breath numbs my soul. Stand with me, by my side. Take my hand and lead the way. Out from the shadows and into the real world. Show me how to live a life owned by regret. My blood runs cold, lifeless in shame. Now is the time, to right the wrong. Inside my veins, poison words lie. Within a mind as guilty as yours. take what is left inside of me. I've no use for it. Stained with thoughts uncaring, open and let me in. [it spun my head when i thought you were talking to me, i guess i'm just a fool for thinking your thinking of me, and now, I press my fist to the pillows wishing it was your teeth] Show your world, deceit. Let me live as you, Need not to feel. Emotions rain down. Drowned by innocence, thoughts escape me. Harsh words spit blindly and open paths of life. Take all that is me, a lifeless somber soul. Curse the day you wake as solace sets in. Darkness chokes my emotions. Your breath numbs my soul. Stand with me, by my side. Take my hand, and lead the way. Out from the shadows and into my world. [My soul is not for you to own]I will not live life to see your face anymore.
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hey this is my favorite song, and no one elses. Thank god.