"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.
Springfield's looking pretty dusty today
I see their dreams coming undone
The view from inside ward nine affords this much
A town teeming with the unloved
Close the window and lock it so it's good and tight
Turning eighteen and trying not to look too lost
Have a not so nice day
The jacket makes me straight so I can just sit back and bake
You know I think I'm gonna stay
Talking very loud but no one hears a word I say
Come visit me tonight at eight o'clock and then
You'll see how I am not the crazy one
Voices tell me I'm the shit
Twenty days go by and every day looks the same
I'm the shit
I see their dreams coming undone
The view from inside ward nine affords this much
A town teeming with the unloved
Close the window and lock it so it's good and tight
Turning eighteen and trying not to look too lost
Have a not so nice day
The jacket makes me straight so I can just sit back and bake
You know I think I'm gonna stay
Talking very loud but no one hears a word I say
Come visit me tonight at eight o'clock and then
You'll see how I am not the crazy one
Voices tell me I'm the shit
Twenty days go by and every day looks the same
I'm the shit
Lyrics submitted by emokid13, edited by ChipperSpiff, limedog
My Descent Into Madness Lyrics as written by Mark Everett Paul E. Huston
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Exploration Group LLC
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