"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.
The mention of God,
Makes me strange,
The battle of words,
And the wars we wage,
And the castles of time ,
We build up straight,
Just to run out of room,
And we build sideways.
Sometimes I feel,
My blood runs cold.
And the conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And the acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And I’m catching a bird,
And it makes me feel,
Like I’m talking to her,
Through the atmosphere,
And I know that I’m right,
But can’t let go,
The beauty in flight,
And the world we know.
Sometimes I feel,
My blood runs cold.
And the conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And the acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
We’re so far gone,
But we can’t let go.
We’re so far gone,
That my blood runs cold.
The conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The hurricanes and tidal waves,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
Makes me strange,
The battle of words,
And the wars we wage,
And the castles of time ,
We build up straight,
Just to run out of room,
And we build sideways.
Sometimes I feel,
My blood runs cold.
And the conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And the acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And I’m catching a bird,
And it makes me feel,
Like I’m talking to her,
Through the atmosphere,
And I know that I’m right,
But can’t let go,
The beauty in flight,
And the world we know.
Sometimes I feel,
My blood runs cold.
And the conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
And the acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
We’re so far gone,
But we can’t let go.
We’re so far gone,
That my blood runs cold.
The conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The acid rain,
Right through my veins,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The hurricanes and tidal waves,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
The conscious stain,
Won’t wash away,
Tell me what are we waiting for.
Lyrics submitted by cullen-angelz84
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