"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.
Girl behind the screen, the movie I seem to see is hardly there
The glass contacts in my eyes make it hard to focus
When you step out on the floor your dress is swaying in the piano
The fabric of your invisible body is being sewn
The fabric of your invisible body is being sewn with music
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I'm awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
Girl, open in the window, let the air and the music inside your room
Turn off the TV, stretch your body out as far as it goes
The plants you nurtured are all beaming and growing in gratitude
The ones forgotten have all withered and they’re black as coal
They’re black now, woman
The ones forgotten have all withered and they’re black as coal
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
The rain shall come
And corpses become roses
There’s a hidden beauty finding its way out of everything
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
Just hold your tongue
Don’t be so quick to curse them
There’s a hidden beauty finding its way out of everyone
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
The glass contacts in my eyes make it hard to focus
When you step out on the floor your dress is swaying in the piano
The fabric of your invisible body is being sewn
The fabric of your invisible body is being sewn with music
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I'm awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
Girl, open in the window, let the air and the music inside your room
Turn off the TV, stretch your body out as far as it goes
The plants you nurtured are all beaming and growing in gratitude
The ones forgotten have all withered and they’re black as coal
They’re black now, woman
The ones forgotten have all withered and they’re black as coal
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
The rain shall come
And corpses become roses
There’s a hidden beauty finding its way out of everything
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
Just hold your tongue
Don’t be so quick to curse them
There’s a hidden beauty finding its way out of everyone
Kaite, will you come true for me?
Come by sometime when I’m awake
Everyone else just lies to me
They say you’re a dream
Will you step into the light from the screen
So that I can make out your shape?
You don’t need to tell me anything
Because I know what you mean
Lyrics submitted by SavesTheNight
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