"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.
Shut up......Stop talking
I got it all figured out this time
Don't worry
They'll never take us out alive
The endless trial
Convicting all
But it's us now
We got control
If you can't talk
Then I can't hear
And that's why we're locked in the dark
If I knew what you were from the start
Fighting would never be hard
Now we're drooling to tear you apart
Destroying all that you are
Let's start the big event
10 seconds of blind amusement
The public execution
So come on lets all feel the hate
I feel it....Yeah!
But I'm coming back for more
Excitement....Yeah!
Stop fucking the world to death....
You need it.....Yeah!
I'll kill us all right now....
For this......Yeah!
Cannot stop the rage
I know the lie
A photographs a knife
A question
A path that leads nowhere
I search inside myself
To find a place, sometimes safe
And if I find that place
I can finally rest and stop asking about
The know
The how
The where
The reasons competing
The way
The why
The you
The why
The reasons believing
And I know the faith
The God
The waste
The lying it's breathing
And I know the face
The man
The hate
The anger it's seething
The parasite
Behind my eyes
Controls my mind
And feeds on time
So I'll hide inside
And wait until it's over
The nothingness is vicoden
It felt so good to find an end
Nothing lasts when I am
Drowning for this
Killing for this
I can't stop thinking
I can't stop thinking about
It's just fine
And we'll be alright
While we can find
Our way to the endless light, yeah!
And tonight it all turns black again
So you can hide inside your fucking mind
And cry because you're still alive
But it will never end
Don't hold your mother fucking breath
Embrace your lonely selfishness
Cause you will never know
The know
The how
The where
The reasons competing
The know the face
The man
The hate
The anger it's seething
I got it all figured out this time
Don't worry
They'll never take us out alive
The endless trial
Convicting all
But it's us now
We got control
If you can't talk
Then I can't hear
And that's why we're locked in the dark
If I knew what you were from the start
Fighting would never be hard
Now we're drooling to tear you apart
Destroying all that you are
Let's start the big event
10 seconds of blind amusement
The public execution
So come on lets all feel the hate
I feel it....Yeah!
But I'm coming back for more
Excitement....Yeah!
Stop fucking the world to death....
You need it.....Yeah!
I'll kill us all right now....
For this......Yeah!
Cannot stop the rage
I know the lie
A photographs a knife
A question
A path that leads nowhere
I search inside myself
To find a place, sometimes safe
And if I find that place
I can finally rest and stop asking about
The know
The how
The where
The reasons competing
The way
The why
The you
The why
The reasons believing
And I know the faith
The God
The waste
The lying it's breathing
And I know the face
The man
The hate
The anger it's seething
The parasite
Behind my eyes
Controls my mind
And feeds on time
So I'll hide inside
And wait until it's over
The nothingness is vicoden
It felt so good to find an end
Nothing lasts when I am
Drowning for this
Killing for this
I can't stop thinking
I can't stop thinking about
It's just fine
And we'll be alright
While we can find
Our way to the endless light, yeah!
And tonight it all turns black again
So you can hide inside your fucking mind
And cry because you're still alive
But it will never end
Don't hold your mother fucking breath
Embrace your lonely selfishness
Cause you will never know
The know
The how
The where
The reasons competing
The know the face
The man
The hate
The anger it's seething
Lyrics submitted by Hardcore_Icon
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