"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.
Are you comfortable with the skin you're in?
Are you screaming loud enough to be important?
Are you following the path that you thought you would or wouldn't?
And you backed it all along
When you're pulling from what's inside, it's honest there
It took all these nights alone, alone we are
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
So at ease with the night that we drove along
From the top of the hill where we don't go
And the stop where we claim our life, our place forever
And we dreamt it all along
From the nights when the light stayed alive, we shared
It took all these nights alone, alone we are
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
In hope I speak your name for closure
By a thread we'll hang to never give in
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(Tonight may be the last night in these shoes)
Are you screaming loud enough to be important?
Are you following the path that you thought you would or wouldn't?
And you backed it all along
When you're pulling from what's inside, it's honest there
It took all these nights alone, alone we are
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
So at ease with the night that we drove along
From the top of the hill where we don't go
And the stop where we claim our life, our place forever
And we dreamt it all along
From the nights when the light stayed alive, we shared
It took all these nights alone, alone we are
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(It does arrive, fly)
In hope I speak your name for closure
By a thread we'll hang to never give in
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Aurora, don't leave me yet
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving
(Tonight may be the last night in these shoes)
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I've got the feeling that 'Aurora' is referring to a person (and a she because of the "lipstick stained life"). And that its the story of someone who's following their dreams but maybe not the right way hence "Are you following the path that you thought you would or wouldn’t?". The "Are you comfortable with the skin you’re in?" is Brock questioning this person's way of getting to what he/she desires, A song about someone drifting away from him and he's trying to hold on by a thread. My opinion anyway x