"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.
Crumbling around the freefall.
This missing are will forever make
Your nerves crawl.
Crumbling.
We will assume the worst.
Incapsulation, fists clenching and falling.
Mistakes make it easy.
Incapsulation, eyes dry and vacant.
Mistakes make it easy.
Harmonic turbulence shakes.
Ties red booths to magazines.
Stand and clear.
Harmonic.
We will assume the worst.
Say no more.
We recall, it's all meaningless.
Green eyes blur, give in easier,
And make you blind.
We recall, simplicity.
This missing are will forever make
Your nerves crawl.
Crumbling.
We will assume the worst.
Incapsulation, fists clenching and falling.
Mistakes make it easy.
Incapsulation, eyes dry and vacant.
Mistakes make it easy.
Harmonic turbulence shakes.
Ties red booths to magazines.
Stand and clear.
Harmonic.
We will assume the worst.
Say no more.
We recall, it's all meaningless.
Green eyes blur, give in easier,
And make you blind.
We recall, simplicity.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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WORST SONG EVER means nothing so SHUTUP
screw you senorgracioco you are just a mexican, this song is awesome, no meaxican could understand the true meaning of this song, keep going strong sparta
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Hey I was just being a wise ass you lawnmowing bastard. I was merely mocking those idiots who come to tell everyone that this is "the best song ever". Besides, I put the lyrics up, and you came to read them. Which means I rule and you are just a peon. Or it means I bought the album at the midnight presale, came home and opened the jacket and typed the lyrics. Either way, you're still mexican.
not cool.. i looove this song and i am mexican
the phrase, vacant skies is awesome, but i find it funny they use it more than once...
well i really do like this song... i dont really listen in depth to it, but if its playing in the background it makes me happy
definitely my favorite Sparta song, i think it really shows what the band is capable of. i saw them with DC and Weezer and they were great.
hey, this song is really good. but you racist people truly are losers.