"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.
I am blinding
Autoluminescent
I am white heat
I am heaven sent
I was a nightmare
But I'm not gonna go there
Again
Into the black hole
The house of no contest
Make mine a meteor
Rise me above the rest
I'm soaring through outer space
There is no better place
To be
I'm bigger than Jesus Christ
I'm greater than God in light
I am dangerous
I cut like the sharpest knife
I'm going nova
And I hope I can hold her
In
Into the darkness
I gave away myself
Slipped on the spiral stairs
Tumbling down the well
I fell on a soft spot
I'm white heat, I'm white hot
Again
Again...
Autoluminescent
I am white heat
I am heaven sent
I was a nightmare
But I'm not gonna go there
Again
Into the black hole
The house of no contest
Make mine a meteor
Rise me above the rest
I'm soaring through outer space
There is no better place
To be
I'm bigger than Jesus Christ
I'm greater than God in light
I am dangerous
I cut like the sharpest knife
I'm going nova
And I hope I can hold her
In
Into the darkness
I gave away myself
Slipped on the spiral stairs
Tumbling down the well
I fell on a soft spot
I'm white heat, I'm white hot
Again
Again...
Lyrics submitted by mutinyinheaven_x
Autoluminescent Lyrics as written by Rowland Howard
Lyrics © Mute Song Limited
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