"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.
Ear at the voice inside
Dig a deeper tomb and all the self can finally resonate, resonate, resonate, resonate
Tread on the path of pride
You can be the god and let the faith become your enemy, enemy, enemy, enemy
Breathe redemption into wasted life
Closer, closer
Find the wrath of God inside your eyes
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
Breathe deep
And as the fear before you falls
I know the pain is so unsettling
Breathe deep
So now you've built a thousand walls
But in the end it's all unraveling
Stand with a worthless sign
Wave it in the path of every face you cannot tolerate, tolerate, tolerate, tolerate
Breathe redemption into wasted life
Closer, closer
Find the wrath of God inside your eyes
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
This is the last day that you will regret
Wake from your sleep and never forget
This is the last day that you will regret
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
Closer, closer, closer, closer
Dig a deeper tomb and all the self can finally resonate, resonate, resonate, resonate
Tread on the path of pride
You can be the god and let the faith become your enemy, enemy, enemy, enemy
Breathe redemption into wasted life
Closer, closer
Find the wrath of God inside your eyes
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
Breathe deep
And as the fear before you falls
I know the pain is so unsettling
Breathe deep
So now you've built a thousand walls
But in the end it's all unraveling
Stand with a worthless sign
Wave it in the path of every face you cannot tolerate, tolerate, tolerate, tolerate
Breathe redemption into wasted life
Closer, closer
Find the wrath of God inside your eyes
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
This is the last day that you will regret
Wake from your sleep and never forget
This is the last day that you will regret
Closer, closer
[Chorus]
Closer, closer, closer, closer
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