"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.
It started as a joke
Just one of my lucks to see
If somehow I could reach you
So I swam onto your shores
Through an open window
Only to find you all alone
Curled up with machines
Now it seems youâ??re slipping
Out to the land of the ravine
Just take a closer look
Take a closer look
At what it is thatâ??s really haunting you
I hear to trust you
Not this digital ghost
Look I fear thereâ??s only so much time
Cause the you I knew is fading away
Hands
Lay them on my keys
Let me play you again
I am not immune to you
And find me there and yet
I wonâ??t go even if he
Your heart only beats once
And switch you on my friend
Pull you from that wreckage
But only you can fight against these
Take a closer look
Just take a closer look
At what it is thatâ??s really haunting you
I hear to trust you
Not this digital ghost
Well I fear thereâ??s only so much time
Cause the you I knew is fading away
Fading
Fading
Fading away.
Just one of my lucks to see
If somehow I could reach you
So I swam onto your shores
Through an open window
Only to find you all alone
Curled up with machines
Now it seems youâ??re slipping
Out to the land of the ravine
Just take a closer look
Take a closer look
At what it is thatâ??s really haunting you
I hear to trust you
Not this digital ghost
Look I fear thereâ??s only so much time
Cause the you I knew is fading away
Hands
Lay them on my keys
Let me play you again
I am not immune to you
And find me there and yet
I wonâ??t go even if he
Your heart only beats once
And switch you on my friend
Pull you from that wreckage
But only you can fight against these
Take a closer look
Just take a closer look
At what it is thatâ??s really haunting you
I hear to trust you
Not this digital ghost
Well I fear thereâ??s only so much time
Cause the you I knew is fading away
Fading
Fading
Fading away.
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Digital Ghost Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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I think it definitely has to do with computers: open window, machines, my keys, your net, ones and O's, switch you on.. Pretty much what Plath81 says. Maybe an internet relationship, or a relationship where one party uses it too much. Maybe it's about people who find new identities and lovers through an online things. It seems to address the way humans can be completely different people online than in real life. And, the person is slipping out of the land of the living and fading away..