"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.
Hope unknown, sometimes just waking is surreal.
I walk right through the nameless ones.
I know that hope's unknown.
Sometimes the water feels so real.
As I walk through it fills my lungs, my god, I'm drowning.
This day never seems to end.
This pain, never.
This day never seems to end.
This rage I can not let go.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
So alone.
Sometimes I swear that I can hear the taunting of the voiceless ones.
I fear that I alone fear those who finally ceased to feel,
That they're alone inside this place.
I am the misplaced.
This day never seems to end.
This pain, never.
This day never seems to end.
This rage I can not let go.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
Now every face, it looks familiar...
Then every face would melt away until...
Now everyone, do you know, I know your deception?
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
I walk right through the nameless ones.
I know that hope's unknown.
Sometimes the water feels so real.
As I walk through it fills my lungs, my god, I'm drowning.
This day never seems to end.
This pain, never.
This day never seems to end.
This rage I can not let go.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
So alone.
Sometimes I swear that I can hear the taunting of the voiceless ones.
I fear that I alone fear those who finally ceased to feel,
That they're alone inside this place.
I am the misplaced.
This day never seems to end.
This pain, never.
This day never seems to end.
This rage I can not let go.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls.
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
Now every face, it looks familiar...
Then every face would melt away until...
Now everyone, do you know, I know your deception?
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
I hear them calling.
I feel them gnawing out holes
all through out our flawless souls
Lyrics submitted by ScreamingInfidelity
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