"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.
They walk out
And there's no sound
There's a candle burning
Lying up for they to see
The things beyond me
This is why the eyes rise on me
So the nights comes on me
And it starts to breathe
Tell me what did you think of me?
If I dropped a ring
When you say
When the moon is across the water
Judgment comes when I'm all alone
And the glass door is closed
They heard that it's all left behind
When you talk to me
You could swallow me
That time brings me a place
When I hear your words
I feel you near
Fingers wanted to find a frozen memory
Sometimes close the road
Direction down
Make you wish you could take it back
I walk in and there's no sound
I walk straight to you
And I find you down
We took a walk where I left you
We want to save
Save now and we won't be punished no more
When you talk to me
You could swallow me
That time brings me a place
When I hear your words
I feel you near
Fingers wanted to find a frozen memory
Sometimes friends are long ago
Affections free to go
Find your right way
And there's no sound
There's a candle burning
Lying up for they to see
The things beyond me
This is why the eyes rise on me
So the nights comes on me
And it starts to breathe
Tell me what did you think of me?
If I dropped a ring
When you say
When the moon is across the water
Judgment comes when I'm all alone
And the glass door is closed
They heard that it's all left behind
When you talk to me
You could swallow me
That time brings me a place
When I hear your words
I feel you near
Fingers wanted to find a frozen memory
Sometimes close the road
Direction down
Make you wish you could take it back
I walk in and there's no sound
I walk straight to you
And I find you down
We took a walk where I left you
We want to save
Save now and we won't be punished no more
When you talk to me
You could swallow me
That time brings me a place
When I hear your words
I feel you near
Fingers wanted to find a frozen memory
Sometimes friends are long ago
Affections free to go
Find your right way
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by Cyberghost
Judgement Lyrics as written by Samuel Ervin Beam
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Day walks out and there's no sound There's a candle burning by me now Light enough for to see the things beyond me Door is wide as her eyes on me So the night comes in and starts to breathe The only name that I really know
Tell me dear, do you think of me At a drop of rain, or when you see The wind, it rakes as it moves across the water Judgement comes when I'm all alone Like a spyglass on the furthest coast Favored now that it's left behind
When you talk to me You could swallow me
Nighttime brings me a place I fear Where I hear your words and feel you near Fingers only to find a frozen memory Sometimes clothes chosen long ago A direction down a gravel road Make you wish you could take them back
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Days walk on and when there's no sound I go straight to you and find you down Kneeling next to the water where I left you Knee-deep now in the creek I made From the landscape lost I want to save Save it now or be punished more
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Nighttime brings me a place I fear Where I hear your words and feel you near Fingers never to find a warmer memory Sometimes friends we knew long ago Or affections we set free to go Find you right where you ran to hide
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I'm pretty sure the line that says "Makes you wish you could take him back" should read, "Make you wish you could take 'em back".
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This one's not too hard to interpret. The narrator is lying awake at night thinking of a past love and regretting leaving her.