"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.
One more time
I tried to find
A way to kill the pain
But still it stayed the same
One more time
I pushed rewind
And instead to move ahead
I went back into my head
And drift away to the place
That I found under the ocean
Chorus:
Where the water pulls me down
Into a world without a sound
A beautiful awakening
And while the water soothes my mind
In this world that I have found
I'm sinking as I'm waiting
For the end
One more time
I couldn't find
A way to stop the pain
I tried, but it remained
So I drift away to the place
That I found under the ocean
Repeat Chorus
If you were here with me
And saw the things I see
The things I see in my head
I know you are just like me
We see things they'll never see
We live inside our own world
A world that they can't see
We're free
We're free
Repeat Chorus
For the end
I tried to find
A way to kill the pain
But still it stayed the same
One more time
I pushed rewind
And instead to move ahead
I went back into my head
And drift away to the place
That I found under the ocean
Chorus:
Where the water pulls me down
Into a world without a sound
A beautiful awakening
And while the water soothes my mind
In this world that I have found
I'm sinking as I'm waiting
For the end
One more time
I couldn't find
A way to stop the pain
I tried, but it remained
So I drift away to the place
That I found under the ocean
Repeat Chorus
If you were here with me
And saw the things I see
The things I see in my head
I know you are just like me
We see things they'll never see
We live inside our own world
A world that they can't see
We're free
We're free
Repeat Chorus
For the end
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