"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.
Kuun ympärillä on kehä
tähän hallayöhön loppuu kesä
kietoudun tiukasti vaatteiden sisään
kun kylmä tuuli puhaltaa
Mustan veden äärettömyys
vaiko omantunnon äänettömyys
minua houkuttelee tänne
kivikkoiseen rantaan
Ja jos jonkun sainkin kainaloon
tiesin, silti yksin oon
sen kauniin kukan kadotin
enkä koskaan saanut takaisin
puolestani anna ruumiisi
edestäni vuodata veresi
loputtomia ehtoja sanelin
yksin kuoliaaksi palelin
Tuomittu (x2)
Kuljemme yksin täällä
kyynelten kastelemia teitä
synkkyyden vankina etsimme muita
eksyneitä
Katselemme kuinka aallot
piiskaavat rannan kiviä
limaisen roskan sekaan
enkelten siipien höyheniä
(x2):
Ja jos jonkun sainkin kainaloon
tiesin, silti yksin oon
sen kauniin kukan kadotin
enkä koskaan saanut takaisin
puolestani anna ruumiisi
edestäni vuodata veresi
loputtomia ehtoja sanelin
yksin kuoliaaksi palelin
Tuomittu (x4)
tähän hallayöhön loppuu kesä
kietoudun tiukasti vaatteiden sisään
kun kylmä tuuli puhaltaa
Mustan veden äärettömyys
vaiko omantunnon äänettömyys
minua houkuttelee tänne
kivikkoiseen rantaan
Ja jos jonkun sainkin kainaloon
tiesin, silti yksin oon
sen kauniin kukan kadotin
enkä koskaan saanut takaisin
puolestani anna ruumiisi
edestäni vuodata veresi
loputtomia ehtoja sanelin
yksin kuoliaaksi palelin
Tuomittu (x2)
Kuljemme yksin täällä
kyynelten kastelemia teitä
synkkyyden vankina etsimme muita
eksyneitä
Katselemme kuinka aallot
piiskaavat rannan kiviä
limaisen roskan sekaan
enkelten siipien höyheniä
(x2):
Ja jos jonkun sainkin kainaloon
tiesin, silti yksin oon
sen kauniin kukan kadotin
enkä koskaan saanut takaisin
puolestani anna ruumiisi
edestäni vuodata veresi
loputtomia ehtoja sanelin
yksin kuoliaaksi palelin
Tuomittu (x4)
Lyrics submitted by nikuku
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