"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.
Pale anticipation of the action, the method destruction of the silence in a second, deception I'm only on my knees to taste the ground, the absence the taste of blood without the waste of breath, resistance sacrifice of life without a cause, corrected cavity of life without a soul, the body religion of a life without a chance, salvation concern about a life that dosn't care, confusion Where we stand life and limb adrenaline live and die it's just a toy we're crawling space and time infinity delirious in consequence as these events are falling We never step outside of what we are you CANNOT hide from yourself everything we live is just a dream the voice of the pain is within Simplify the anger of the weakness, resentment never understand the only answer, the riddle only in a lie are we alive, but dying everyday we crawl into the darkness, dreaming sacrifice of life without a cause, corrected cavity of life without a soul, the body religion of a life without a chance, salvation concern about a life that dosn't care, confusion Mystic road sadistic unpredictable disassociate myself from this physical state of what is critical, but only on a small scale if you talke it literal, you dig beneath the fingernail what you find will alarm you and everything can, and will somehow harm you, so why do your so-called protectors disarm you? The prophets have warned you but who can you turn to? As soon as the dead alive outnumber the living there will be no reasoning, there will be no forgiving there will be no grace, there will be only madness, and chaos and turmoil and damage and sadness Never step outside of what we are you CANNOT hide from yourself everything we live is just a dream the voice of the pain is within
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