"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.
come to me you willing ones.
blind and sick on rotten meal.
one by one like fatting cows.
snap you jump and blink, you yield.
the good will not be cloned,
but you are made by the wheels that turn.
the good will not be cloned
you know in time you will be found and revealed.
keep the bleeding sheep in count.
you're all numbered ounce by ounce.
no trace of nobility.
us poor starve on crumbs you leave.
the good will not be cloned,
but you are made by the wheels that turn.
the good will not be cloned
you know in time you will be found and revealed.
a decade of being forgotten.
a decade of being forgotten.
no more.
no more.
no more being forgotten.
no more being forgotten..........
Lyrics submitted by enjay
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