"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.
I see no stability in history
Since we're finding lies upon lies upon lies
Yet you base your life on inconsistencies
None of which have any backings provable
I'm not saying it's bunk to learn
What we believe happened before
Because they've all agreed upon the lie
And it's probably somewhere near the truth
But I'd much rather base my life
Around anything that's here before my eyes
Anything that's tangible
Anything that's a definite fact
Resting on the laws of physics
Everything we need to know
To solve our problems
Is here
Somewhere
Around us
Somewhere around us
Somewhere definite
Something that we say we know
Based on science
And not history
This is where we have problems
This is where we disagree
This is where we head in different directions
Since we're finding lies upon lies upon lies
Yet you base your life on inconsistencies
None of which have any backings provable
I'm not saying it's bunk to learn
What we believe happened before
Because they've all agreed upon the lie
And it's probably somewhere near the truth
But I'd much rather base my life
Around anything that's here before my eyes
Anything that's tangible
Anything that's a definite fact
Resting on the laws of physics
Everything we need to know
To solve our problems
Is here
Somewhere
Around us
Somewhere around us
Somewhere definite
Something that we say we know
Based on science
And not history
This is where we have problems
This is where we disagree
This is where we head in different directions
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Answers Lyrics as written by Charlie Paulson John William Feldmann
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i cant disagree more. the logic of aristotle was to separate and identify all the specifics of the things of our tangible world. he has been regarded as the father of modern science. That said however, i cant imagine n.n. believing in aristotle's separatist ontology. Everything about their lyrics saying the answers are right here through the science of logic seems momre to me to support plato and his view that all things are interconnected and all things are the same at their underlying level (think tiny vibrating strings)
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