"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.
Angel
There's no sense calling out your name
Look at
(?) to be near
Somewhere
It's something but it's not the same
(?) fears
So you say you're the angel's child
You're going too far
(?) all around you
You'll worry about what tomorrow brings
You (?)
(?) all around you
Instead it makes your life feel complete
It keeps you on the edge of your seat
Laugh in the face of the kingdom come
And now you see it's falling
(?) all around you
Now you'll say that you've heard it all
And now we see (?)
(?) keep
And lay the branches down at your feet
It doesn't have to be that way
It doesn't have to be that way
It doesn't have to be that way
I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never needed love
It feels so (?)
(?) down your (?)
(?) come to they (?)
It's (?) too (?) that you've been (?)
The source of all love, life (?)
(?)
You will learn you're headed (?) for a fall
Or you can (?) with your dreams
(?) life (?) is a (?)
It doesn't have to be that way
I never wanted to
She never needed us
I never wanted to
She never needed love
I never wanted to
I never want to die
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never (?)
She never wanted life
I never (?)
I never wanted to love you girl
There's no sense calling out your name
Look at
(?) to be near
Somewhere
It's something but it's not the same
(?) fears
So you say you're the angel's child
You're going too far
(?) all around you
You'll worry about what tomorrow brings
You (?)
(?) all around you
Instead it makes your life feel complete
It keeps you on the edge of your seat
Laugh in the face of the kingdom come
And now you see it's falling
(?) all around you
Now you'll say that you've heard it all
And now we see (?)
(?) keep
And lay the branches down at your feet
It doesn't have to be that way
It doesn't have to be that way
It doesn't have to be that way
I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never needed love
It feels so (?)
(?) down your (?)
(?) come to they (?)
It's (?) too (?) that you've been (?)
The source of all love, life (?)
(?)
You will learn you're headed (?) for a fall
Or you can (?) with your dreams
(?) life (?) is a (?)
It doesn't have to be that way
I never wanted to
She never needed us
I never wanted to
She never needed love
I never wanted to
I never want to die
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never (?)
She never wanted life
I never (?)
I never wanted to love you girl
Lyrics submitted by ecorchee1
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Angel There's no sense calling out your name We look at the clue to be near
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