"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.
embrace the end of august
counting down the hours
my pulse is racing to the freeze of the breeze
always dreading summer's conclusion into autumn's intrusion
it begins the swelling of this twisted disease
bone broken, glass smashed
vein is open, skin's slashed
exhausting all solutions to the highest degree
chemicals collide, tainted inside
awoken in the dark by the tremors comsuming me
a poison chosen, polluting the essence to be
a temporary fix to mask the agony
kill me at once, because that's what it wants
an anxiety increase beyond a person's belief
panic stricken, body sickened
razors deepen, red seeping
i utilize my being for inflicting battery
under the autumn low
misery destroying the beauty of life
under the autumn low
intuition decieved by the threat of homicide
living in chains without the words to explain
existing in the past where only memories remain
focus unclear, a stagnant exercise in fear
without an answer, gut reaction...the end is near
save me
counting down the hours
my pulse is racing to the freeze of the breeze
always dreading summer's conclusion into autumn's intrusion
it begins the swelling of this twisted disease
bone broken, glass smashed
vein is open, skin's slashed
exhausting all solutions to the highest degree
chemicals collide, tainted inside
awoken in the dark by the tremors comsuming me
a poison chosen, polluting the essence to be
a temporary fix to mask the agony
kill me at once, because that's what it wants
an anxiety increase beyond a person's belief
panic stricken, body sickened
razors deepen, red seeping
i utilize my being for inflicting battery
under the autumn low
misery destroying the beauty of life
under the autumn low
intuition decieved by the threat of homicide
living in chains without the words to explain
existing in the past where only memories remain
focus unclear, a stagnant exercise in fear
without an answer, gut reaction...the end is near
save me
Lyrics submitted by Melanieg
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