"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.
Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting
Come the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
shatters on the lake
You settle down,
Where you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan could
Shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
[Chorus]
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down. where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone.
Cold as river stone
Anxiety. Alone.
[Chorus]
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
[Chorus]
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
Come the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
shatters on the lake
You settle down,
Where you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan could
Shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
[Chorus]
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down. where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone.
Cold as river stone
Anxiety. Alone.
[Chorus]
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
[Chorus]
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
Lyrics submitted by myownprison333
Desperation Song Lyrics as written by Carter Gravatt Barry Thomas Privett
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