"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.
Sea
Seas within myself
Yet see within myself
What cannot be seen
Lie
Lies deep within my soul
Yet cannot be the sole
Purpose to my quest
Time
Time is but a stream
A stream through which I cross
Across the endless time
In primal night I was always searching for an answer to
The majesty of night and the peace of starless space
The taint of Novas past and the stench of burning suns
My will to find the place to escape the curse of light
Needs
Needs to be fulfilled
Fulfilling in the need
To right the venerable wrong
Please
Pleas my weary soul
And all the souls who plea
To regain sovereignty
End
End the venery
And from the end begin
The point which lost to time
Caught within ":the dark backward and abysm of
Time:"I sought to find my way
Lead solely by a faint string of crimson hue
To bring me back upon myself
Descent
Into Time
In fetters of time lies a measureless space
A malfeasance in contradiction
To a cosmos unbound when in times long ago
The keepers of the continuum failed
Return
(To) Endless Night
Creature of highest conciousness
Exists in the notch of the "eight"
Seeking "the palpable obscure"
For I am The Dweller of Inanity
Through Storms of cosmic dust I make my way
Blinded by a thousand dying suns
And through the grayest hole where a million realities exist
I find where strip upon itself does turn
Sea
Seas within myself
Yet see within myself
What cannot be seen
Lie
Lies deep within my soul
Yet cannot be the sole
Purpose to my quest
Time
Time is but a stream
A stream through which I cross
Across the endless time
Seas within myself
Yet see within myself
What cannot be seen
Lie
Lies deep within my soul
Yet cannot be the sole
Purpose to my quest
Time
Time is but a stream
A stream through which I cross
Across the endless time
In primal night I was always searching for an answer to
The majesty of night and the peace of starless space
The taint of Novas past and the stench of burning suns
My will to find the place to escape the curse of light
Needs
Needs to be fulfilled
Fulfilling in the need
To right the venerable wrong
Please
Pleas my weary soul
And all the souls who plea
To regain sovereignty
End
End the venery
And from the end begin
The point which lost to time
Caught within ":the dark backward and abysm of
Time:"I sought to find my way
Lead solely by a faint string of crimson hue
To bring me back upon myself
Descent
Into Time
In fetters of time lies a measureless space
A malfeasance in contradiction
To a cosmos unbound when in times long ago
The keepers of the continuum failed
Return
(To) Endless Night
Creature of highest conciousness
Exists in the notch of the "eight"
Seeking "the palpable obscure"
For I am The Dweller of Inanity
Through Storms of cosmic dust I make my way
Blinded by a thousand dying suns
And through the grayest hole where a million realities exist
I find where strip upon itself does turn
Sea
Seas within myself
Yet see within myself
What cannot be seen
Lie
Lies deep within my soul
Yet cannot be the sole
Purpose to my quest
Time
Time is but a stream
A stream through which I cross
Across the endless time
Lyrics submitted by Bobo192
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