"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.
Welcome into dream world center
Genius I'm no fault pretender
Practice using, brain abusing
Drink your smart drug, find illusion
Ride the air on an angel's dare
Golden roads are everywhere
Endless faces, billions of places
Living in the world with so many changes
Try your mind, deep underground
Feel the cosmos swirling around
So take a trip
Take a trip across the Neural Sky
You got to enter my mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome into Nightmare center
Darkness falls, now I surrender
Hateful dreaming, self demeaning
Running from the faith devoid the meaning
Search for life in the endless night
Make the choice its black or white
Deadly races, midnight places
Drowning in a sea of nameless faces
Drag your mind, deep underground
Feel the madness swirling around
So kiss me while
So kiss me wild in the virtual sky
You got to enter my enter my enter my-
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Psycho sender, sonic bender
Demons screaming 'I remember'
Twisted ice, and sacrifices
And dying in the world of new devices
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Genius I'm no fault pretender
Practice using, brain abusing
Drink your smart drug, find illusion
Ride the air on an angel's dare
Golden roads are everywhere
Endless faces, billions of places
Living in the world with so many changes
Try your mind, deep underground
Feel the cosmos swirling around
So take a trip
Take a trip across the Neural Sky
You got to enter my mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome into Nightmare center
Darkness falls, now I surrender
Hateful dreaming, self demeaning
Running from the faith devoid the meaning
Search for life in the endless night
Make the choice its black or white
Deadly races, midnight places
Drowning in a sea of nameless faces
Drag your mind, deep underground
Feel the madness swirling around
So kiss me while
So kiss me wild in the virtual sky
You got to enter my enter my enter my-
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Psycho sender, sonic bender
Demons screaming 'I remember'
Twisted ice, and sacrifices
And dying in the world of new devices
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Welcome To My Mind
Lyrics submitted by Asuyuka
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