"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.
Even now in heaven
There were angels carrying savage weapons
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
Is that room been fit to earth?
Doesn't help the to grow sunshine?
Is this darkness all you'll take?
Have you'd passed through this life?
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
Where you're going you're not coming back from
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
This grain evil
Where is it come from?
Had it still the end of the world?
Who's doing this?
Who's killed us?
Marking us with the sign of the holy mighty man
Run, run, run (run, run)
Run, run, run (run, run)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
(An eye for an eye)
Are you righteous?
(A tooth for a tooth)
Kind?
(Run, run, run but you sure can't hide)
Do you come for ?
(An eye for an eye)
Are you loved by heart?
(A tooth for a tooth)
Do you imagine your suffers will be last?
(Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide)
Because you loved to be truth
An eye for an eye,
A tooth for a tooth,
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide,
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide,hide)
What are you to me?
There were angels carrying savage weapons
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
Is that room been fit to earth?
Doesn't help the to grow sunshine?
Is this darkness all you'll take?
Have you'd passed through this life?
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
Where you're going you're not coming back from
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
This grain evil
Where is it come from?
Had it still the end of the world?
Who's doing this?
Who's killed us?
Marking us with the sign of the holy mighty man
Run, run, run (run, run)
Run, run, run (run, run)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
An eye for an eye (for an eye)
A tooth for a tooth (for a tooth)
Run, run, run,
But you sure can't hide (hide, hide)
(An eye for an eye)
Are you righteous?
(A tooth for a tooth)
Kind?
(Run, run, run but you sure can't hide)
Do you come for ?
(An eye for an eye)
Are you loved by heart?
(A tooth for a tooth)
Do you imagine your suffers will be last?
(Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide)
Because you loved to be truth
An eye for an eye,
A tooth for a tooth,
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide,
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide (hide,hide)
What are you to me?
Lyrics submitted by Ozzy, edited by KyleRadames
Eye for an Eye Lyrics as written by Barrett Strong Antony Genn
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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