"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.
winter hands, cold clasps
the memory filters into some
thing lucid
a salty drop on my brow
a once brilliant residue
now overrish
segments collide
is this the place you
hide when the warmth
goes away?
i'm not thinking about
tomorrow
cause there's a six-
letter word tat-
inside my head
take all your
thoughts
put them aside
we are frozen in time
but i might step away
but i'm not turning my back
on you
i'm not closing
our thoughts and words are
crystallized in ice
no sense in trying to
bring them
back to
life
thaw them out
you will find they are disjoint
a new configuration
maybe it's better to live in sleep
in constant dreamscapes
what is reality anyway?
the memory filters into some
thing lucid
a salty drop on my brow
a once brilliant residue
now overrish
segments collide
is this the place you
hide when the warmth
goes away?
i'm not thinking about
tomorrow
cause there's a six-
letter word tat-
inside my head
take all your
thoughts
put them aside
we are frozen in time
but i might step away
but i'm not turning my back
on you
i'm not closing
our thoughts and words are
crystallized in ice
no sense in trying to
bring them
back to
life
thaw them out
you will find they are disjoint
a new configuration
maybe it's better to live in sleep
in constant dreamscapes
what is reality anyway?
Lyrics submitted by SkyBluToo
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word
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Geoff's appearance really adds to this song. It wouldn't be the same without him.
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