"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.
Hear the tale of a fallen people
Destined to wander their broken land
Their eyes are vacant,
Full of empty meaning
What they're missing they just don't understand
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising to show us the way
Long ago a secret treasure was given
To change the heart
Of every woman and man
But somehow the treasure
Was forgotten
It lies buried underneath
The shifting sand
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising up with the bright
Dawn of healing
Rising up to show us the way
Our eyes are not seeing
Our hearts are not feeling
We want to believe now
Come save us from ourselves
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are dying
The son of man will be rising
The glory of the lord will be shining
Shatter the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising to show us the way
Oh show us the way
Destined to wander their broken land
Their eyes are vacant,
Full of empty meaning
What they're missing they just don't understand
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising to show us the way
Long ago a secret treasure was given
To change the heart
Of every woman and man
But somehow the treasure
Was forgotten
It lies buried underneath
The shifting sand
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising up with the bright
Dawn of healing
Rising up to show us the way
Our eyes are not seeing
Our hearts are not feeling
We want to believe now
Come save us from ourselves
Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are dying
The son of man will be rising
The glory of the lord will be shining
Shatter the dark horizon
Out where the people are crying
A Morningstar will be rising
Rising to show us the way
Oh show us the way
Lyrics submitted by LincolnIvory
Morningstar Lyrics as written by Jon Knox Mark Stephen Gersmehl
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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Whiteheart is a rather old band, but they're my favorite. ^^ I love this song... You have to hear it in order to fully appreciate it. It has such a unique, romantic, haunting kind of long-y... sound... yeah. ^^;;;
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ACK!!! i wrote "drying" instead of dying!! -drowns in red pools of embarrassment-
All right, it has been fixed.
if you're a girl, marry me