"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.
you're walking my streets,
I don't know who you are.
you don't care for my trees,
I only see you from afar.
you can't see where you go,
I can't find you the way.
you seem you do not know,
I won't tell you to stay.
you're losing your mind,
I don't feel you're alive.
you don't know what to find,
I can't help you contrive.
you're closing your eyes,
I can't bring you to see.
you forget your soul dies,
I fear you won't be free.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in this world.
lost alone in this world.
there are others beside you,
feeling empty and hurt.
feeling empty and hurt.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in dark dreams.
lost alone in dark dreams.
one of them will find you,
knowing what it means,
to be lost alone.
to be lost alone.
I'm lost in the cold,
there is nobody else.
I didn't know I had sold,
my life reduced to shells.
I was left in the dark,
all to remember is gone.
I'm feeling the mark,
still I have to drag on.
I've built my own cave,
there's just no way out.
I thought I would feel safe,
but now I want to shout.
I feed on my sorry state,
but this sure won't last.
I fear it is too late,
to break free from my past.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in this world.
lost alone in this world.
there are others beside you,
feeling empty and hurt.
feeling empty and hurt.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in dark dreams.
lost alone in dark dreams.
one of them will find you,
knowing what it means,
to be lost alone.
to be lost alone.
I don't know who you are.
you don't care for my trees,
I only see you from afar.
you can't see where you go,
I can't find you the way.
you seem you do not know,
I won't tell you to stay.
you're losing your mind,
I don't feel you're alive.
you don't know what to find,
I can't help you contrive.
you're closing your eyes,
I can't bring you to see.
you forget your soul dies,
I fear you won't be free.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in this world.
lost alone in this world.
there are others beside you,
feeling empty and hurt.
feeling empty and hurt.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in dark dreams.
lost alone in dark dreams.
one of them will find you,
knowing what it means,
to be lost alone.
to be lost alone.
I'm lost in the cold,
there is nobody else.
I didn't know I had sold,
my life reduced to shells.
I was left in the dark,
all to remember is gone.
I'm feeling the mark,
still I have to drag on.
I've built my own cave,
there's just no way out.
I thought I would feel safe,
but now I want to shout.
I feed on my sorry state,
but this sure won't last.
I fear it is too late,
to break free from my past.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in this world.
lost alone in this world.
there are others beside you,
feeling empty and hurt.
feeling empty and hurt.
you are not the only one,
lost alone in dark dreams.
lost alone in dark dreams.
one of them will find you,
knowing what it means,
to be lost alone.
to be lost alone.
Lyrics submitted by LaLaLogic
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