"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.
Trading life for life
It all must fall
It must end with us
It must end with me
Insinuations of what might be
Fight through deprivation
There will be no sleep
Heed my cry
Because of greed and hatred
To dust we return
They will see the strength in our numbers
Only then will the self-righteous learn
Insinuations of what might be
To the masses, we mean nothing
But it starts in the hearts of the few
Witness the birth of a people
Unite. Renew.
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
Through change and purity, turn the shadows to light
Buried beneath the ashes is a passion for life
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
Let there be no more of this bloodshed
Heed my cry.
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
It all must fall
It must end with us
It must end with me
Insinuations of what might be
Fight through deprivation
There will be no sleep
Heed my cry
Because of greed and hatred
To dust we return
They will see the strength in our numbers
Only then will the self-righteous learn
Insinuations of what might be
To the masses, we mean nothing
But it starts in the hearts of the few
Witness the birth of a people
Unite. Renew.
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
Through change and purity, turn the shadows to light
Buried beneath the ashes is a passion for life
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
Let there be no more of this bloodshed
Heed my cry.
There is no forever, just today
Don't let your sacrifice waste away
Lyrics submitted by (shevanel)
Wasted Sacrifice Lyrics as written by Howard Jones Adam Dutkiewitz
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