"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.
Down in a southern town
A devil took both my eyes
She buried them in the sand
She wanted me to hold her hand
Is it coke or would you like a beer?
No, I want what burns and is clear
When it's clear and it burns to the taste
It puts beauty back in its place
The first of this devil was worse
It spoke through my fingers in verse
Let the children feast on the street
Cause they don't care what they eat
Let the horses all starve in a ditch
Let the architects sit and get rich
Let the Christians call down from above
Let them starve for wanting of love and
If he exists he's out of sight
Or under cheap fluorescent light
Justine take off that disguise
In the sunlight there's nothing you can hide
Justine the world is cruel, I know
But escape is loneliness for sure
Justine what does all this mean?
You got something I'm not supposed to see?
A devil took both my eyes
She buried them in the sand
She wanted me to hold her hand
Is it coke or would you like a beer?
No, I want what burns and is clear
When it's clear and it burns to the taste
It puts beauty back in its place
The first of this devil was worse
It spoke through my fingers in verse
Let the children feast on the street
Cause they don't care what they eat
Let the horses all starve in a ditch
Let the architects sit and get rich
Let the Christians call down from above
Let them starve for wanting of love and
If he exists he's out of sight
Or under cheap fluorescent light
Justine take off that disguise
In the sunlight there's nothing you can hide
Justine the world is cruel, I know
But escape is loneliness for sure
Justine what does all this mean?
You got something I'm not supposed to see?
Lyrics submitted by smallesttruth
Justine, Beckoning Lyrics as written by Dean Stone Andrew Whiteman
Lyrics © ARTS & CRAFTS MUSIC INC DBA GALLERYAC MUSIC
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