"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 don't want to be just a branch of the tree
I just want to learn how to grow my own seed
My horizon so hard to be outlined
Riding all my time I'm still draining my day away
You've got a natural healing
How do you get so strong?
Who is this lord of the feeling?
How did he get so big?
So fragile this feeling to be broken in two
It's really weird to say that there in the future
We're not living all our life
It's just what I know
We're incomplete despite of a new millennium
You're hiding fate
Wonderful to say that you'll never know when the world
Is going to fall and that
Is all i know
We're incomplete despite of the new millennium
I don't want to be just a cure for a need
Here into my prison I'm searching the key
My horizon so hard to be outlined
Riding all my time I'm still draining my day away
You are an unnatural survivor
Self-abuser hurt your own
All the answers sweet seduction
Chaos keeper out of control
So special this feeling to be common like you
It's really weird to say that here in the future
We're not living all our life
It's just what I know
We're incomplete despite of a new millennium
Take off your veil I'll be your fate
Wonderful to say that you'll never know when the world
Is going to fall and that
Is all I know
We're incomplete despite of the new millennium
I just want to learn how to grow my own seed
My horizon so hard to be outlined
Riding all my time I'm still draining my day away
You've got a natural healing
How do you get so strong?
Who is this lord of the feeling?
How did he get so big?
So fragile this feeling to be broken in two
It's really weird to say that there in the future
We're not living all our life
It's just what I know
We're incomplete despite of a new millennium
You're hiding fate
Wonderful to say that you'll never know when the world
Is going to fall and that
Is all i know
We're incomplete despite of the new millennium
I don't want to be just a cure for a need
Here into my prison I'm searching the key
My horizon so hard to be outlined
Riding all my time I'm still draining my day away
You are an unnatural survivor
Self-abuser hurt your own
All the answers sweet seduction
Chaos keeper out of control
So special this feeling to be common like you
It's really weird to say that here in the future
We're not living all our life
It's just what I know
We're incomplete despite of a new millennium
Take off your veil I'll be your fate
Wonderful to say that you'll never know when the world
Is going to fall and that
Is all I know
We're incomplete despite of the new millennium
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Awesome band, awesome song.
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