"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.
Where do you see yourself?
Answer this question
Are you residing amongst the introverts?
Do your bowels swell?
Behind enemy lines? covert
All this has been felt
Continued to complain
Outlining the frames
Converted into saturated spores
This truth deranged
Is your faith restored?
Inaccurate
More so than before
Fertilize the ground
That cultivates your assets
Symbols of excellence
I will secure thyself against the caskets
Rest not
The dwell within must grow
Persecution
Resolution
Disperse the clots
Withstand the blows
Endure the terrors
It is a strength that can't be tamed
The strength of things contained
Scold the vast offenses
Critical conditions
Defenseless
The stomach growls
Discipline
Chosen food for my survival
Setting the first example
Ample
Overcome with the challenges
Of a contaminated vision
Never the less
Always the more
Layers beneath
Swallow
Digest
Sprouting the roots that produce
Milk from the breast
Flow through the veins
Proteins
Vessel unseen
Thoughts becoming
Whether foul or clean
A product of these
Perfect animations
Interactive
Residuals
Server the ties
Associates of the spiritually diseased
Whirlwinds of disaster
Qualities divine
Run from the walls
That
Rip you down
Thieves
That will
Lie and astound
Expressing obscurities profound
Respectable?
Violent policies
Divide the animals
Anticipation of the effects engrained
Widespread
Bleeding through the orifices
Epidemic concentrates
Rupture
Blister
The plastering of the subordinates
The mastering of the inordinates
Alternatives
The body can lead you astray
From those you love
Passions
Smack them down
Structures that disrupt
This half cannot be replaced
These wide open
Embrace
Sweat in the eyes
Shut
Tight
Vandalized
Majesties that decline
Answer this question
Are you residing amongst the introverts?
Do your bowels swell?
Behind enemy lines? covert
All this has been felt
Continued to complain
Outlining the frames
Converted into saturated spores
This truth deranged
Is your faith restored?
Inaccurate
More so than before
Fertilize the ground
That cultivates your assets
Symbols of excellence
I will secure thyself against the caskets
Rest not
The dwell within must grow
Persecution
Resolution
Disperse the clots
Withstand the blows
Endure the terrors
It is a strength that can't be tamed
The strength of things contained
Scold the vast offenses
Critical conditions
Defenseless
The stomach growls
Discipline
Chosen food for my survival
Setting the first example
Ample
Overcome with the challenges
Of a contaminated vision
Never the less
Always the more
Layers beneath
Swallow
Digest
Sprouting the roots that produce
Milk from the breast
Flow through the veins
Proteins
Vessel unseen
Thoughts becoming
Whether foul or clean
A product of these
Perfect animations
Interactive
Residuals
Server the ties
Associates of the spiritually diseased
Whirlwinds of disaster
Qualities divine
Run from the walls
That
Rip you down
Thieves
That will
Lie and astound
Expressing obscurities profound
Respectable?
Violent policies
Divide the animals
Anticipation of the effects engrained
Widespread
Bleeding through the orifices
Epidemic concentrates
Rupture
Blister
The plastering of the subordinates
The mastering of the inordinates
Alternatives
The body can lead you astray
From those you love
Passions
Smack them down
Structures that disrupt
This half cannot be replaced
These wide open
Embrace
Sweat in the eyes
Shut
Tight
Vandalized
Majesties that decline
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amazing!!!!you gotta love it!!!don't deny!!!