"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.
Sun in his cups
Doesn't hear the water rushing
Down on the town
Stands in his beetle brushing
Boots, in his hand
A record by The Undecided
One out of one
Multiplied and then divided
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Snakes in the grass
Sliding through the Hornsey Gardens
Down in the park
Watching as the shadows harden
Left in the road
No-one ever realises
What you once were
Here in your new disguises
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Dead or asleep
It doesn't really matter to me
Here in my world
Step inside and walk right through me
I don't even see
I'm so involved in what I'm doing
Out of my grip
I'm unconcerned with rack or ruin
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Time flaots away
In this land of lakes and castles
Closing my eyes
I pack it up in paper parcels
Deep in the ground
All your sorry sisters flowing
Woven in lead
With little specks of silver showing
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Oh, I need a New River Head
Oh, I need a New River Head
Doesn't hear the water rushing
Down on the town
Stands in his beetle brushing
Boots, in his hand
A record by The Undecided
One out of one
Multiplied and then divided
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Snakes in the grass
Sliding through the Hornsey Gardens
Down in the park
Watching as the shadows harden
Left in the road
No-one ever realises
What you once were
Here in your new disguises
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Dead or asleep
It doesn't really matter to me
Here in my world
Step inside and walk right through me
I don't even see
I'm so involved in what I'm doing
Out of my grip
I'm unconcerned with rack or ruin
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Time flaots away
In this land of lakes and castles
Closing my eyes
I pack it up in paper parcels
Deep in the ground
All your sorry sisters flowing
Woven in lead
With little specks of silver showing
What I want
Waits unnoticed, and
What I get
Rain in my bed
Oh, I need a New River Head
Oh, I need a New River Head
Oh, I need a New River Head
Lyrics submitted by xdvr
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Might I humbly suggest a couple of amendments?
First verse: First line is cups; I also believe they are "Beatle brushing boots". Second verse: "Hornsey Gardens" is an area in North London not too far from St. John's Wood where Nick Saloman grew up. I think you are correct that the fifth line is "road". Fourth verse: Begins with "Time floats away", and the third line is indeed "closing my eyes"
Thanks for adding it! Cheers, R
Hey, cheers for the suggestions!<br /> Made the changes. <br /> <br /> Have you seen: bevisfrond.bandcamp.com/<br />