"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.
Walking in this world of secrets
You grow inside
Awakening through the years you live
To the powers of mind
So many things are said
Of this maze of misery
The light we hold inside
But we cannot see
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
From the Budas of Nepal
Through the oriental seas
"Mighty stories" are told
Things "out of reality"
Self control they all say
Of your spirit of your mind
The step for us to reach
A different time
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
So awake begin to realise
That you just know a tiny part of your mind
Close your eyes send yourself into yourself
Seek inside and maybe you will find
The truth of mind... mind
But:
Through the years of your life
Other things you have earned
Pre-conditions on your mind
"Mighty truths" that you have learned
Of your spirit of your mind
So, if you want to find
Things that are behind this prision
You must climb this wall we've built
This so called "Wall of reason"
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
You grow inside
Awakening through the years you live
To the powers of mind
So many things are said
Of this maze of misery
The light we hold inside
But we cannot see
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
From the Budas of Nepal
Through the oriental seas
"Mighty stories" are told
Things "out of reality"
Self control they all say
Of your spirit of your mind
The step for us to reach
A different time
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
So awake begin to realise
That you just know a tiny part of your mind
Close your eyes send yourself into yourself
Seek inside and maybe you will find
The truth of mind... mind
But:
Through the years of your life
Other things you have earned
Pre-conditions on your mind
"Mighty truths" that you have learned
Of your spirit of your mind
So, if you want to find
Things that are behind this prision
You must climb this wall we've built
This so called "Wall of reason"
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Search your truth
Behind the wall
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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