"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.
Pulling this watch as faces go
Pulling in a word and done it slow this other time
I see your face is silent
Oh, we go away and play
What have you done
Takes a feeling inside us all
Continue out with just one push in my mouth
But you're so close now
And you're so close now
All I have to do is three short blows
All that still is best inside
The full when the wall
And you don't even know
All I Have to Do is Kill Her [Repeat: x3]
And the other faces here with me
The others dressed in summers thing
If only one way is to be wonderful
If only one way is to the other song
And every time it's you, it's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
And every time we see it's all said before you
If only one way is to kill you
You used to say this fear of drowning
Fear no death by water
Father walks in at the foot of the bed
Six of you want to see you safe
Just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
And all you've got to do is kill her
Trickle the sands against and pull the animals
Just out of the womb
Seeing the cow dead before he was born
It's the man he, he loved
The solid pieces fell on the ground
He couldn't kill another life [Repeat: x3]
It's all been painted with love
It could have been some friends
Pulling strings to meet you
All I want to do is reach it
She says "Let go my shoulder!"
See the sky!
And the sky goes black
And the sky goes black
I just want to feel her
I just want to feel her
I just want you to feel it
I just want you to feel it
Everytime I looked up the stairs
I used to see her die
She would move so slow
Anyone could've been but she was a cat
Anyone could've been she was a cat
Pulling away as I used to fight
That's just playing so low
That ugly or pretty
The face stays the same
Her face stays the same
Her face stays the same
The ugly or pretty
Her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same
And looking on the final walls
And looking on the final walls
Did you now find this malice out
The angels fall
Let's make some noise [Repeat: x3]
Make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Make some noise
Help me be your mother for just one day
Let's fall in churches far outside
They used to love
They used to love
They used to
They used to love
Pulling in a word and done it slow this other time
I see your face is silent
Oh, we go away and play
What have you done
Takes a feeling inside us all
Continue out with just one push in my mouth
But you're so close now
And you're so close now
All I have to do is three short blows
All that still is best inside
The full when the wall
And you don't even know
All I Have to Do is Kill Her [Repeat: x3]
And the other faces here with me
The others dressed in summers thing
If only one way is to be wonderful
If only one way is to the other song
And every time it's you, it's like the blood on the stairs is sent away
And every time we see it's all said before you
If only one way is to kill you
You used to say this fear of drowning
Fear no death by water
Father walks in at the foot of the bed
Six of you want to see you safe
Just one time you'll meet this man
All you've got to do is kill her
And all you've got to do is kill her
Trickle the sands against and pull the animals
Just out of the womb
Seeing the cow dead before he was born
It's the man he, he loved
The solid pieces fell on the ground
He couldn't kill another life [Repeat: x3]
It's all been painted with love
It could have been some friends
Pulling strings to meet you
All I want to do is reach it
She says "Let go my shoulder!"
See the sky!
And the sky goes black
And the sky goes black
I just want to feel her
I just want to feel her
I just want you to feel it
I just want you to feel it
Everytime I looked up the stairs
I used to see her die
She would move so slow
Anyone could've been but she was a cat
Anyone could've been she was a cat
Pulling away as I used to fight
That's just playing so low
That ugly or pretty
The face stays the same
Her face stays the same
Her face stays the same
The ugly or pretty
Her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same
And looking on the final walls
And looking on the final walls
Did you now find this malice out
The angels fall
Let's make some noise [Repeat: x3]
Make some noise
Let's make some noise
Let's make some noise
Make some noise
Help me be your mother for just one day
Let's fall in churches far outside
They used to love
They used to love
They used to
They used to love
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here is another version of forever. this one was from the june 6th 1982 paris show.
Pulling this watch as faces go Pulling in a word and done it slow This other time I see your face is silent Oh, we go away and What have you done Takes a feeling inside us all Continue out with just One push in my mouth But you're so close now And you're so close now All I have to do is three short blows All that still is best inside Fool when they walk And you don't even know All I have to do is kill her... And the other faces here with me The others dressed in summers thing If only one way is to be beautiful If only one way is to the other song And every time it's you, It's like the blood on the stairs Is sent away And every time we see It's all set before you If only the ways to kill you You used to say This fear of drowning Fear no death by water Father walks in at the foot of the bed Six of you want to see you safe Just one time you'll meet this man All you've got to do is kill her And all you've got to do is kill her Trickle the sands against And pull the animals Just out of the womb Seeing the cow dead before he was born It's the man, he loved The solid pieces fell on the ground He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life It's all been painted with love It could have been some friends Pulling strings to meet you All I want to do is reach it She says 'Let go my shoulder!' See the sky! And the sky goes black And the sky goes black I just want to feel her I just want to feel her I just want you to feel it I just want you to feel it Everytime I looked up the stairs I used to see her die She would move so slow Anyone could've been But she was a cat Anyone could've been She was a cat Pulling away as I used to fight That's just playing so low That ugly or pretty The face stays the same Her face stays the same Her face stays the same The ugly or pretty face Stays the same, stays the same, Stays the same And looking on the final walls And looking on the final walls Did you now find this malice out? The angels fall Let's make some more noise... Would you fall in They used to say Help me be your mother For just one day Let's fall in churches far outside They used to love They used to love...