"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.
Release me from the sky
onto marsh domains
Expose the parachute to
Ease - the - vicious fall
Unseen by those below
Preying on their blindsights
shadows dance
About - the - jungle bog
Agent of espionage
Bearing north of the penisula
Invitatin to lay clear
Think - over - the strategy
Advance into forbidden marsh
scope all in the infrared
Create offensive
Resistance - from the - river banks
Searching,
stalking,
Mustard
gas
released,
Enter
smokescreen
Dodging
lasers
sailing
through the
smoke
and
debris
Tracking
hidden
fortress
sighted
under
ground,
entrance
found
Begin
clearing
operations
Thermal
scan
revealing
activity
Entering the concealed passage
corridors extend beneath the surface
Manoeuvering through the
radar - beams - alarm reaction
Progression is slow under canister discharge
targets locked at the ends of the turns
Awaiting any enemy to
approach - infrared - identification
Once inside the target's range
seize the moment by squeezing the trigger
Single lead injection
intentions to wound - not to kill yet
Movement gives away strategic position
A regiment responds to the action
Trip wire set, suckered into the trap
They lay decapitated
Explosions
under
ground
send
shrapnel
throughout
the air
Metal
fragments
lodge
beneath
heavy
military
uniform
Excruciating
pain
dealt
with
bandage
cuts
circulation
Limping
severely
mission
must
be
accomplished
Moving quickly
towards goal
Stealth the key
Clear path
to achieve lethal detonation
Flares of weapons
burst in synch
Give way
delay charge
Chemical timers are now set
Once on the surface
reconnaissance picks him up
on the scope
Subterranean specialist
Looks down below
as the mountain lies in rubble
onto marsh domains
Expose the parachute to
Ease - the - vicious fall
Unseen by those below
Preying on their blindsights
shadows dance
About - the - jungle bog
Agent of espionage
Bearing north of the penisula
Invitatin to lay clear
Think - over - the strategy
Advance into forbidden marsh
scope all in the infrared
Create offensive
Resistance - from the - river banks
Searching,
stalking,
Mustard
gas
released,
Enter
smokescreen
Dodging
lasers
sailing
through the
smoke
and
debris
Tracking
hidden
fortress
sighted
under
ground,
entrance
found
Begin
clearing
operations
Thermal
scan
revealing
activity
Entering the concealed passage
corridors extend beneath the surface
Manoeuvering through the
radar - beams - alarm reaction
Progression is slow under canister discharge
targets locked at the ends of the turns
Awaiting any enemy to
approach - infrared - identification
Once inside the target's range
seize the moment by squeezing the trigger
Single lead injection
intentions to wound - not to kill yet
Movement gives away strategic position
A regiment responds to the action
Trip wire set, suckered into the trap
They lay decapitated
Explosions
under
ground
send
shrapnel
throughout
the air
Metal
fragments
lodge
beneath
heavy
military
uniform
Excruciating
pain
dealt
with
bandage
cuts
circulation
Limping
severely
mission
must
be
accomplished
Moving quickly
towards goal
Stealth the key
Clear path
to achieve lethal detonation
Flares of weapons
burst in synch
Give way
delay charge
Chemical timers are now set
Once on the surface
reconnaissance picks him up
on the scope
Subterranean specialist
Looks down below
as the mountain lies in rubble
Lyrics submitted by Disposition_987
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