"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 think you just forgot to tell me why,Why I was fading out
Again Why my mask of sanity was slipping off again, my
Friend Beware of hatred when your time stands still
[Chorus: x3]
Like the average stalker Forge to forgive Like the average stalker
I'm just sliding,disappear into the night Like a strange and
A forgotten light One,two,three,four and I'm at your door
Calculating infinity In my silence where no one else can
Hear,What is right,what is wrong (right,wrong) In
My silence where no one else forgives Where the sane
And insane strikes together as one
[Chorus]
Where is the fire,it makes no sense at all I'm just
Hiding beneath the hour Disabled through affliction I
Can't reach out Reach out,reach out In my silence
Where no one else can hear What is right what is
Wrong (right,wrong) In my silence where no one else
Forgive Where the sane and insane strikes together as
One with a violent work of art I proceed,in this lack of
Faith I get what I need,what I need!
[Chorus]
Like the average stalker,Forge to forget,Like the
Average stalker,Like a silent talker,Like the average
Stalker
Again Why my mask of sanity was slipping off again, my
Friend Beware of hatred when your time stands still
[Chorus: x3]
Like the average stalker Forge to forgive Like the average stalker
I'm just sliding,disappear into the night Like a strange and
A forgotten light One,two,three,four and I'm at your door
Calculating infinity In my silence where no one else can
Hear,What is right,what is wrong (right,wrong) In
My silence where no one else forgives Where the sane
And insane strikes together as one
[Chorus]
Where is the fire,it makes no sense at all I'm just
Hiding beneath the hour Disabled through affliction I
Can't reach out Reach out,reach out In my silence
Where no one else can hear What is right what is
Wrong (right,wrong) In my silence where no one else
Forgive Where the sane and insane strikes together as
One with a violent work of art I proceed,in this lack of
Faith I get what I need,what I need!
[Chorus]
Like the average stalker,Forge to forget,Like the
Average stalker,Like a silent talker,Like the average
Stalker
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Like the Average Stalker Lyrics as written by Ola Gustav Frenning Peter Leo Rickard Wichers
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Why my mask of sanity was slipping off again my friend Beware of hatred when your time stands still"
"In the slience nobody else can hear, What is right, what is wrong">>><<<<<Love those bits, heh.
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