"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.
well its just a sharp look in your eyes
you derive your search for desire in a room with open doors
It’s the languish that’s in your mind that makes you feel so secure…
So you can grow faint listless to live or feel
affect longing for everlasting peace
To pine, desire
You caught my glimpse is it me
your languish, your weakness sharply pointed at me
Try to derange me
I don’t want you to
but I want you
You’re just a sweet thing that all implies satisfaction
“We’re alone at last she smiles”
I got the feeling of an outcast burnt down to the ground
Another feeling that makes yourself insane
Defectiveness, another feeling that you’re incomplete
your languish, your weakness sharply pointed at me
we don’t stop
they’re listening two time
how bout a life?
Go get a life x4
Grow faint listless to live or be.
Affect longing for everlasting peace
to pine, desire.
Another feeling that you’re incomplete
your languish your weakness sharply pointed at me
you derive your search for desire in a room with open doors
It’s the languish that’s in your mind that makes you feel so secure…
So you can grow faint listless to live or feel
affect longing for everlasting peace
To pine, desire
You caught my glimpse is it me
your languish, your weakness sharply pointed at me
Try to derange me
I don’t want you to
but I want you
You’re just a sweet thing that all implies satisfaction
“We’re alone at last she smiles”
I got the feeling of an outcast burnt down to the ground
Another feeling that makes yourself insane
Defectiveness, another feeling that you’re incomplete
your languish, your weakness sharply pointed at me
we don’t stop
they’re listening two time
how bout a life?
Go get a life x4
Grow faint listless to live or be.
Affect longing for everlasting peace
to pine, desire.
Another feeling that you’re incomplete
your languish your weakness sharply pointed at me
Lyrics submitted by inverse_paradise
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