"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.
From here
No lines are
Drawn
From here
No lands
Are owned
Thirteen thousand and holding
Swallowed
In the purring
Of her engines
Tracking the beacon
Here
"Is there a signal
There
On the other side"
On the other side?
What do you mean
Side of what things?
And you said
And you did
And you said
You could find me here
And you said
You would find me
Even in death
And you said
And you said
You'd find me
But I can't see new York
As I'm, circling down
Through white cloud
Falling out
And I know
His lips are warm
But I can't seem
To find my way out
My way out I can't see.
Of this hunting ground
From here crystal meth
In meters of millions
In the end all we have,
Soul blueprint.
Did we get lost in it
Do we conduct a search
For this "from the other side"
From the other side?
What do they mean
Side of what things...
And you said.
You again
It's you again
I can't see
I can't see New York
From the other side
From the other side
I hum from the other side
This is the tie that will bind us
No lines are
Drawn
From here
No lands
Are owned
Thirteen thousand and holding
Swallowed
In the purring
Of her engines
Tracking the beacon
Here
"Is there a signal
There
On the other side"
On the other side?
What do you mean
Side of what things?
And you said
And you did
And you said
You could find me here
And you said
You would find me
Even in death
And you said
And you said
You'd find me
But I can't see new York
As I'm, circling down
Through white cloud
Falling out
And I know
His lips are warm
But I can't seem
To find my way out
My way out I can't see.
Of this hunting ground
From here crystal meth
In meters of millions
In the end all we have,
Soul blueprint.
Did we get lost in it
Do we conduct a search
For this "from the other side"
From the other side?
What do they mean
Side of what things...
And you said.
You again
It's you again
I can't see
I can't see New York
From the other side
From the other side
I hum from the other side
This is the tie that will bind us
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce
I Can't See New York Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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