"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.
Land of the Gods
Home for their human forms
You see the same stars
From their distant realm
mystic path you sail
To reach their presence
One part of mortal world
Creation, the Great Song
There's a land beyond the great sea
The final place of read harmony
To the shores of a far-away realm
Those lands my dream and my destiny
From the elven bay of Lhun
Our great journey shall begin
West our ships are heeding
To the harbour of the far away land divine
Over the deep waters
Facing the thundering winds
May Ulmo be on my side
All the way to the Enchanted Isles
Sailing the magical ships
A journey over the sea
Straight Road along the elves
Beyond the Spheres of the world
Somewhere behind the horizon
Two realms of Undying Lands
Valinor home of the Valar
Eldamar the elven domain
Without fear to the unknown sea
Forward with full sails
White ships of elven wood
Catching the fair wind
Soon I shall see my ream
The fate I truly believed
Land of magic and fantasy
Place for my final rest
Farewell my mortal friends
My time with you will be over
Hail the home of gods
Share my joy when I'm gone
Sailing the magical ships
A journey over the sea
Straight Road along the elves
Beyond the Sphere of the world
Over the deep waters
Facing the thundering winds
May Ulmo be on my side
All the way to the Enchanted Isles
Shall I ever see that coast
Kingdoms of Tirion and Alqualonde
Heart of the higher races
The realm of the gods, my eternal home
Home for their human forms
You see the same stars
From their distant realm
mystic path you sail
To reach their presence
One part of mortal world
Creation, the Great Song
There's a land beyond the great sea
The final place of read harmony
To the shores of a far-away realm
Those lands my dream and my destiny
From the elven bay of Lhun
Our great journey shall begin
West our ships are heeding
To the harbour of the far away land divine
Over the deep waters
Facing the thundering winds
May Ulmo be on my side
All the way to the Enchanted Isles
Sailing the magical ships
A journey over the sea
Straight Road along the elves
Beyond the Spheres of the world
Somewhere behind the horizon
Two realms of Undying Lands
Valinor home of the Valar
Eldamar the elven domain
Without fear to the unknown sea
Forward with full sails
White ships of elven wood
Catching the fair wind
Soon I shall see my ream
The fate I truly believed
Land of magic and fantasy
Place for my final rest
Farewell my mortal friends
My time with you will be over
Hail the home of gods
Share my joy when I'm gone
Sailing the magical ships
A journey over the sea
Straight Road along the elves
Beyond the Sphere of the world
Over the deep waters
Facing the thundering winds
May Ulmo be on my side
All the way to the Enchanted Isles
Shall I ever see that coast
Kingdoms of Tirion and Alqualonde
Heart of the higher races
The realm of the gods, my eternal home
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I feel that there is something else, maybe something they didn't intend it to mean.
I always imagined it to be a conflicting personality. When Kaisa sings I think of a joyful moment, and when Patrik starts the mood deepens. When he starts growling It hits at a point where maybe anger occurs.
I hope you understand what I mean, I do understand a know that the song is about the journey to Valar or Eldamar