"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.
I'm sitting by a lake
But it's not of this earth
The water is so clear
And the birds are alive
A mirror for the sky
Only see themselves and fly away
I'm sitting by a lake
(The universe is alive)
I lay down by the river-flow
(It's a river of stars)
I'm living by the ocean
(It's an ocean of light)
How do you call this place around?
(It's a world that I once saw in a dream)
Will you please tell me now
(If I'm dead or alive?)
Landscapes so bright, all around
(It's a city of light)
Where, who, when, why?
(I think, therefore I am)
I feel like I know this land
(But this must be so far away)
This world is life
There's clouds-and-wonders
It's all I need and it will never go
You say it's lost, I don't believe it
This is my vision, we can never know
This is the earth, but ages after
I know the world will overcome its pain
The simple fact, I dream about it
Already makes it happen in the rain
It's right in front
But you don't face it
I'm dedicated, all my life in me
And made of light, our sun is growing
Like in the heart of some of us I pray
And by the lynch, you will discover
This form of life is not the only one
I want the truth and I just knew it
And now I know the vision came alive
But it's not of this earth
The water is so clear
And the birds are alive
A mirror for the sky
Only see themselves and fly away
I'm sitting by a lake
(The universe is alive)
I lay down by the river-flow
(It's a river of stars)
I'm living by the ocean
(It's an ocean of light)
How do you call this place around?
(It's a world that I once saw in a dream)
Will you please tell me now
(If I'm dead or alive?)
Landscapes so bright, all around
(It's a city of light)
Where, who, when, why?
(I think, therefore I am)
I feel like I know this land
(But this must be so far away)
This world is life
There's clouds-and-wonders
It's all I need and it will never go
You say it's lost, I don't believe it
This is my vision, we can never know
This is the earth, but ages after
I know the world will overcome its pain
The simple fact, I dream about it
Already makes it happen in the rain
It's right in front
But you don't face it
I'm dedicated, all my life in me
And made of light, our sun is growing
Like in the heart of some of us I pray
And by the lynch, you will discover
This form of life is not the only one
I want the truth and I just knew it
And now I know the vision came alive
Lyrics submitted by str1ngcheese
World to Come Lyrics as written by Jean Michel Labadie Christian Roger Andreu
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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