"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.
A new adventure to a place we can't find
with our hands in each others
and a new world in our minds
When i'm inside you baby
your lips complete me
I'm intrigued by your design
The price of fame it don't come cheaply
could you point me to the meaning
Could you tell me what's in store?
we all want to live forever
locked inside your myths complete me
I'm intrigued by your disguise
We need a rager
so we can burn it to the ground,
it's contagious we can't slow down
We need a rager,
So we can burn it all to the ground
it's contagious we can't slow down
The picket line & the placed sign
don't mean nothing in the modern time
The past will die before the future's born
if living's what you're looking for
because they're the liars, cheats, victors in defeat,
a hollow eyed lover in a dirty magazine
they are the loose stomach staple
in a money machine add a little power
and you know they'll say anything
Locked inside your myth completes me,
I'm intrigued by your demise
We need a rager,
so we can burn it all to the ground
it's contagious, we can't slow down
Mother Culture money dream
don't sell me anything
market facet free for all
you can never steal our love!
Yeah, said you never mean it,
I'm bleeding in here from my open wounds
all that we gain is something
that we can not create
oh I never
No I never could come over to you
Locked inside your myth completes me
I'm intrigued by your disguise
Take as the leaves vanish
they came to steal the sun
quick like a laser beam
let's fall in love
with our hands in each others
and a new world in our minds
When i'm inside you baby
your lips complete me
I'm intrigued by your design
The price of fame it don't come cheaply
could you point me to the meaning
Could you tell me what's in store?
we all want to live forever
locked inside your myths complete me
I'm intrigued by your disguise
We need a rager
so we can burn it to the ground,
it's contagious we can't slow down
We need a rager,
So we can burn it all to the ground
it's contagious we can't slow down
The picket line & the placed sign
don't mean nothing in the modern time
The past will die before the future's born
if living's what you're looking for
because they're the liars, cheats, victors in defeat,
a hollow eyed lover in a dirty magazine
they are the loose stomach staple
in a money machine add a little power
and you know they'll say anything
Locked inside your myth completes me,
I'm intrigued by your demise
We need a rager,
so we can burn it all to the ground
it's contagious, we can't slow down
Mother Culture money dream
don't sell me anything
market facet free for all
you can never steal our love!
Yeah, said you never mean it,
I'm bleeding in here from my open wounds
all that we gain is something
that we can not create
oh I never
No I never could come over to you
Locked inside your myth completes me
I'm intrigued by your disguise
Take as the leaves vanish
they came to steal the sun
quick like a laser beam
let's fall in love
Lyrics submitted by TrotsKeenSense
Crushing Destroyer Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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