"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.
The more it screamed
As its tongue
Trailed its lips
In a sordid dance
That waved hello
To a sweating
Bit of meat
That writhed in
Its frenzied fit
Every wet dream
Each unique in
Their own little way
Was simply not
Enough to keep
That monster at bay
Such a modest request
But at the end
Of the day
It cried for
More than the
Poor boy that
Outlived his stay
Give them a reason
To make you feel
Like a god
A pointless obsession
But this can be
So much more
A few hours
Lying awake
With a dirty secret
Sprawled across
My breath
Won't help to
Shatter this wall
That our hands
Have both built
Nothing can
Save you from
The trouble that
My eyes implanted
Right into your
Little red lips
So please
Don't be fooled
That I want
Anything more than
What already lives
Inside our mind
Shut up and listen
To two hearts that
Will never beat
To the rhythm of
The other's name
But will spill
Its blood south
To intoxicate
The mind
All the same
As its tongue
Trailed its lips
In a sordid dance
That waved hello
To a sweating
Bit of meat
That writhed in
Its frenzied fit
Every wet dream
Each unique in
Their own little way
Was simply not
Enough to keep
That monster at bay
Such a modest request
But at the end
Of the day
It cried for
More than the
Poor boy that
Outlived his stay
Give them a reason
To make you feel
Like a god
A pointless obsession
But this can be
So much more
A few hours
Lying awake
With a dirty secret
Sprawled across
My breath
Won't help to
Shatter this wall
That our hands
Have both built
Nothing can
Save you from
The trouble that
My eyes implanted
Right into your
Little red lips
So please
Don't be fooled
That I want
Anything more than
What already lives
Inside our mind
Shut up and listen
To two hearts that
Will never beat
To the rhythm of
The other's name
But will spill
Its blood south
To intoxicate
The mind
All the same
Lyrics submitted by LMthePencilMagician, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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