"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.
Silent screams and shattered dreams
Of what we left at seventeen
Still lost within the misery
And pain that lies inside
Here alone, the fight to breathe
Still searching for the truth to be
Blackened by the burning fire
Held deep inside my mind
Far beyond the lost horizon
Standing on the shore
Across the seas, their hearts will bleed
This life we're waiting for
Taste the steel, in pain you kneel
For glory, we defend
Our fallen souls will rise to fight again
Stay here with me
This night we'll be together
Future in our hands, we'll fight
With freedom drawing near
Stand here with me
For we will live forever
Tonight, we stand and face it all
Falling rain will hide the pain
That lies beneath the burning flames
All hope is gone, so carry on
Before the world will fall
Rise again to die in vain
Now life can never be the same
Our own salvation drawing nearer
Hear the darkness call
Skies are falling, thunder storming
Stand before the world
We're banished now to barren wastelands
Fight the demon whore
Riding on through blackened darkness
Cross the endless sands
We sail away our victory at hand
Stay here with me
Together we'll be stronger
Side by side, we've conquered lands
And stormed across the seas
Die here with me
We feel this pain no longer
For now and ever we will be
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards the distant sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
(Just scream) set me free
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards the distant sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards a glory sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
Feel the breakdown of my body
(Just scream) set me free
Of what we left at seventeen
Still lost within the misery
And pain that lies inside
Here alone, the fight to breathe
Still searching for the truth to be
Blackened by the burning fire
Held deep inside my mind
Far beyond the lost horizon
Standing on the shore
Across the seas, their hearts will bleed
This life we're waiting for
Taste the steel, in pain you kneel
For glory, we defend
Our fallen souls will rise to fight again
Stay here with me
This night we'll be together
Future in our hands, we'll fight
With freedom drawing near
Stand here with me
For we will live forever
Tonight, we stand and face it all
Falling rain will hide the pain
That lies beneath the burning flames
All hope is gone, so carry on
Before the world will fall
Rise again to die in vain
Now life can never be the same
Our own salvation drawing nearer
Hear the darkness call
Skies are falling, thunder storming
Stand before the world
We're banished now to barren wastelands
Fight the demon whore
Riding on through blackened darkness
Cross the endless sands
We sail away our victory at hand
Stay here with me
Together we'll be stronger
Side by side, we've conquered lands
And stormed across the seas
Die here with me
We feel this pain no longer
For now and ever we will be
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards the distant sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
(Just scream) set me free
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards the distant sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
In my heart, in my soul, I am out of control
Fly across the mountains and towards a glory sun
Tears evermore, we cry like before
Feel the breakdown of my body
Feel the breakdown of my body
(Just scream) set me free
Lyrics submitted by Wrongful Suspicion
Body Breakdown Lyrics as written by Herman Hong-man Li Z.p. De Villiers Theart
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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