"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.
She's never more lovely or frightening than early in the morning
Her black hair entwined with mine
I can feel her breathing
Above me beneath me her eyes are so deceiving
They tell me they want me
She'll hurt me in the morning
She's ruthless
It's senseless
I'm useless
I can't escape this feeling
This tension
It's tightening
It suffocates my reason
I don't know who I am
How I survived this beating
The strong me
She's left me for the secret light of morning
My innocence was of a child
So I can't stop from bleeding
And my trust was abounding
That was my mistake
And I thought heaven was burnt into blackness
Burnt into the background when we left
My ocean so quiet it echoes it resonates within me
It tells me to leave here eradicate these boundaries
My fire is much deeper than ever they've imagined
It burns far more brightly than the perfect light of morning
My innocence was of a child
So I can't stop from bleeding
And my trust was abounding
That was my mistake
And I thought heaven was burnt into blackness
Burnt into the background when we left
I'm running in circles no longer
I'll get myself together
It can't hurt
I'm stronger
The frequency is fading
The blood flow is slowing
It's thicker than this feeling
I'll find it
It's not far the lovely light of morning
Her black hair entwined with mine
I can feel her breathing
Above me beneath me her eyes are so deceiving
They tell me they want me
She'll hurt me in the morning
She's ruthless
It's senseless
I'm useless
I can't escape this feeling
This tension
It's tightening
It suffocates my reason
I don't know who I am
How I survived this beating
The strong me
She's left me for the secret light of morning
My innocence was of a child
So I can't stop from bleeding
And my trust was abounding
That was my mistake
And I thought heaven was burnt into blackness
Burnt into the background when we left
My ocean so quiet it echoes it resonates within me
It tells me to leave here eradicate these boundaries
My fire is much deeper than ever they've imagined
It burns far more brightly than the perfect light of morning
My innocence was of a child
So I can't stop from bleeding
And my trust was abounding
That was my mistake
And I thought heaven was burnt into blackness
Burnt into the background when we left
I'm running in circles no longer
I'll get myself together
It can't hurt
I'm stronger
The frequency is fading
The blood flow is slowing
It's thicker than this feeling
I'll find it
It's not far the lovely light of morning
Lyrics submitted by vcharon
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