"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.
Umm umm umm umm
I feel you inside me
And slowly I'm gone
I'm losing it quietly
Drawn into the sun
Lovers go and lovers come
It's the same for everyone
From my life, I'm holding on
It's fragile, precious
I see you beside me and softly I'm done
I'm falling, I'm melting like liquid, I run
Love is all and love is none
But it changes everyone
For a moment and then its gone
It's fragile, precious
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
It's endless completeness, I draw in
Your arms
My senses awakening, how freeing you are
From the depths of where I came
From the embers to the flame
Feeling like a child again
I'm fragile, restless
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
I feel you inside me
And slowly I'm gone
I'm losing it quietly
Drawn into the sun
Lovers go and lovers come
It's the same for everyone
From my life, I'm holding on
It's fragile, precious
I see you beside me and softly I'm done
I'm falling, I'm melting like liquid, I run
Love is all and love is none
But it changes everyone
For a moment and then its gone
It's fragile, precious
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
It's endless completeness, I draw in
Your arms
My senses awakening, how freeing you are
From the depths of where I came
From the embers to the flame
Feeling like a child again
I'm fragile, restless
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
The seconds, the seconds, the seconds into
Your heart
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
What a beautiful day to get lost in the dark
Count the seconds away to the sound of
Your heart
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