"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.
Meranchoria (Melancholia)
tsumetai nigatsu no kaze ga sugiru
Ichirin no hana ga kubi o kashigeru
Shinjitsu no koe ga uso o haita
Haiiro no yuki ga kokoro someta
Me o tojireba kurikaesareteku
Ichirin no hana ga kubi o otosu
Sannen no tsukihi utakata no yume ka
Haiiro no yuki ga namida ni toketa
Nageku koe ha sora ni karete waratta
Utagau koto mo shirazu tada anata o aishiteta
Tooku kieru kako o mune ni kizanda
Me no mae ni ha mou inai hantoumei na sugata sagashiteta
Through I really believe it…
Zetsubou no naka ni yume o daita
Ichirin no hana ha hai to natta
Nando mo nando mo namae o sakenda
Shinjireru mono ha nani mo nai to shitta
Ai ha kitto hakanai mono oto mo nai
Fukaku shizumu hou no you ni musatsu ni umarekieru
Ikitaereba raku ni nareru sayonara
Atatakai komorehi ga tsumetaku natta karada dakishimeta
Nageku koe ha sora ni karete waratta
Merry X’mas mitai ni romantist ga hoshii ka?
Tooku kieru kako o mune ni kizanda
Me no mae ni ha mou inai hantoumei na sugata sagashiteta
I wish that I wanted to die
I fall in a sleep slowly, while floating in tears named lonelyness
tsumetai nigatsu no kaze ga sugiru
Ichirin no hana ga kubi o kashigeru
Shinjitsu no koe ga uso o haita
Haiiro no yuki ga kokoro someta
Me o tojireba kurikaesareteku
Ichirin no hana ga kubi o otosu
Sannen no tsukihi utakata no yume ka
Haiiro no yuki ga namida ni toketa
Nageku koe ha sora ni karete waratta
Utagau koto mo shirazu tada anata o aishiteta
Tooku kieru kako o mune ni kizanda
Me no mae ni ha mou inai hantoumei na sugata sagashiteta
Through I really believe it…
Zetsubou no naka ni yume o daita
Ichirin no hana ha hai to natta
Nando mo nando mo namae o sakenda
Shinjireru mono ha nani mo nai to shitta
Ai ha kitto hakanai mono oto mo nai
Fukaku shizumu hou no you ni musatsu ni umarekieru
Ikitaereba raku ni nareru sayonara
Atatakai komorehi ga tsumetaku natta karada dakishimeta
Nageku koe ha sora ni karete waratta
Merry X’mas mitai ni romantist ga hoshii ka?
Tooku kieru kako o mune ni kizanda
Me no mae ni ha mou inai hantoumei na sugata sagashiteta
I wish that I wanted to die
I fall in a sleep slowly, while floating in tears named lonelyness
Lyrics submitted by therealpoopface
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