"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.
It's like every sparkle
That fell from your eyes
It's like every dream they sold you
Came today like some terrible vision
They Came the day
Nothing seemed to be right
It's like every light
Gave it's soul to the darkness
And said it's last good-byes
It's like every day
Made it's mark on the future
And promptly left you behind
You had a voice that could wake me
Saving me from myself
I wanted to find
things I lost in the mirror
Who lives behind that face?
I needed to find
What was real and illusion
To prove that I was ok
You had a voice that could wake me
Saving me from myself
Laughing on the outside
But the inside is another ride
That I never wanted to see
Laughing on the outside
But the inside is another ride
And I never asked them to be...yeah
You helped me to see
That the sky hadn't fallen
Were just my eyes misplaced?
You said I could look
Past the crack in the mirror
Past the empty space
I thank you for eyes
That can see what i'm dreaming
What did you see in my face?
I thank you for days
Far away from this sadness
That fell from your eyes
It's like every dream they sold you
Came today like some terrible vision
They Came the day
Nothing seemed to be right
It's like every light
Gave it's soul to the darkness
And said it's last good-byes
It's like every day
Made it's mark on the future
And promptly left you behind
You had a voice that could wake me
Saving me from myself
I wanted to find
things I lost in the mirror
Who lives behind that face?
I needed to find
What was real and illusion
To prove that I was ok
You had a voice that could wake me
Saving me from myself
Laughing on the outside
But the inside is another ride
That I never wanted to see
Laughing on the outside
But the inside is another ride
And I never asked them to be...yeah
You helped me to see
That the sky hadn't fallen
Were just my eyes misplaced?
You said I could look
Past the crack in the mirror
Past the empty space
I thank you for eyes
That can see what i'm dreaming
What did you see in my face?
I thank you for days
Far away from this sadness
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
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