"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 paid you, scream with
Don't try healing this too
That said, you're full of it
All of men made to fail
Properly holding your grudge
That said, you're full of shit.
Try accepting this
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
Last burned, we'll grab up in
From a fault that not known
Hate at work, but love a sin
The summer came, juxtapose
All the sounds of this home
But don't complain to beat again
Try accepting this
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
If only the crying could heal
I'd sell my left arm to buy passion
If only apologies worked
Well I could find some reasons
Why maybe you wouldn't be
So ill, so, ill, sorry your souls
So fucking shallow
It's creeping outside, outside of its hole
It's trying to see, say it
Fake this reality
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
What I face
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
Don't try healing this too
That said, you're full of it
All of men made to fail
Properly holding your grudge
That said, you're full of shit.
Try accepting this
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
Last burned, we'll grab up in
From a fault that not known
Hate at work, but love a sin
The summer came, juxtapose
All the sounds of this home
But don't complain to beat again
Try accepting this
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
If only the crying could heal
I'd sell my left arm to buy passion
If only apologies worked
Well I could find some reasons
Why maybe you wouldn't be
So ill, so, ill, sorry your souls
So fucking shallow
It's creeping outside, outside of its hole
It's trying to see, say it
Fake this reality
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
Forever want to crawl out
Fade out next to lazy
End it all within
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
What I face
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
What I face today
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Humanoid Lyrics as written by Samuel Loeffler Peter Loeffler
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