"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.
Before you end your life
Recall all that you've done
Striving for wealth to gain some more power
All of which is now gone
No rest in your afterlife
Now we are left with a weapon
to be used in our Russian Roulette
Being self centered brings mass destruction
This is the world you helped create
No reat in your afterlife
No one can leave this place
A planet in chaos, unsafe
Rest in pieces
Rest in war
Why were you so dumb?
Ruining the future for the ones you love
Die
Now you begin your redemption
Your rooting corpse will fertilize the earth
If no one follows your hollow ways
There is a new chance for rebirth
No reat in your afterlife
Recall all that you've done
Striving for wealth to gain some more power
All of which is now gone
No rest in your afterlife
Now we are left with a weapon
to be used in our Russian Roulette
Being self centered brings mass destruction
This is the world you helped create
No reat in your afterlife
No one can leave this place
A planet in chaos, unsafe
Rest in pieces
Rest in war
Why were you so dumb?
Ruining the future for the ones you love
Die
Now you begin your redemption
Your rooting corpse will fertilize the earth
If no one follows your hollow ways
There is a new chance for rebirth
No reat in your afterlife
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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