"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.
Across the floor, in the hand of where we drove the drill
A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
Think of all the things we put him through
In the face of his god, would he tell the truth?
Still, recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
When eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
Sever the limbs off his torso, in sleep
And burn what remains so the world may now see
No longer will we wait for your answers
Back to the hell where you've come from
Think of all the times you've once had
Write them in a letter that says goodbye
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
Among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
Picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
No name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him, restore him
With the love is no other
Think of all the things you did before
Write them in a letter that says reborn
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this, when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
Think of all the things we put him through
In the face of his god, would he tell the truth?
Still, recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
When eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
Sever the limbs off his torso, in sleep
And burn what remains so the world may now see
No longer will we wait for your answers
Back to the hell where you've come from
Think of all the times you've once had
Write them in a letter that says goodbye
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
Among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
Picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
No name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him, restore him
With the love is no other
Think of all the things you did before
Write them in a letter that says reborn
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this, when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Lyrics submitted by fallacies, edited by Planets89, Mellow_Harsher, samuel1024
Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) Lyrics as written by Joshua Eppard Claudio Sanchez
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"slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions no name to be called redeemer "
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