"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.
Our acts aren’t the result of our free will
They are simply pretty and foolish efforts
elapsing between two moments of stasis
with the unque and intention
of making the waiting less tedious and painful
Only a few instants are truly intense
like the moment when you land
A blow after an asphyxiating and breathless concentration
and the blow will allow you to free your most precious vital space
till now oppressed corrupted and seriously endangered
by the nimblest intruder
Aware and heedless of his disengaged final condition
we are strangely attracted by the moments’ changes
more or less curious, indeed, we react to climatic events
No one can know, better then us, that we avoid
Absorbing that tinkling element by being ready
to protect our wretched ego with phoney and fake
portable barriers, charged with visible
radiations only without any seeming aim
Affective games seems to be an interesting communication matter
although we try and retry to disown this emotional appendix
We are enraptured and nervously tossed in another
logic of mind with the only goal to cloud
and to remove from us the coveted disengaged final condition
They are simply pretty and foolish efforts
elapsing between two moments of stasis
with the unque and intention
of making the waiting less tedious and painful
Only a few instants are truly intense
like the moment when you land
A blow after an asphyxiating and breathless concentration
and the blow will allow you to free your most precious vital space
till now oppressed corrupted and seriously endangered
by the nimblest intruder
Aware and heedless of his disengaged final condition
we are strangely attracted by the moments’ changes
more or less curious, indeed, we react to climatic events
No one can know, better then us, that we avoid
Absorbing that tinkling element by being ready
to protect our wretched ego with phoney and fake
portable barriers, charged with visible
radiations only without any seeming aim
Affective games seems to be an interesting communication matter
although we try and retry to disown this emotional appendix
We are enraptured and nervously tossed in another
logic of mind with the only goal to cloud
and to remove from us the coveted disengaged final condition
Lyrics submitted by Lateralus518
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