"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.
Oh let us rise
Above the bones
Let us remember the memories
Filled with compassion
Not scarred by anger
No not blinded by the ashes of the past
My eyes have not seen it all
Yet in my soul I know
No conception
Is hidden there down below
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
We gonna rise yeah,
High above the flames
Our hearts open as the endless sky
No more deception
No more shame
Just a reflection of the natural high
Ah, do you remember that melody?
Ah, oh yeah, do you remember that song so free?
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
Oh let us rise
Above the bones
Let us remember the memories
No more afraid
No more alone
Let our spirits fly so free
In my arms
A little child wrapped tight in prayer
Safe from harm, oh yeah
Ever guided by jah jah fire
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
I wanna go home
So take me home, home, nah nah nah
You take me home, home, yeah yeah yeah
You take me home nah nah yeah.......
Above the bones
Let us remember the memories
Filled with compassion
Not scarred by anger
No not blinded by the ashes of the past
My eyes have not seen it all
Yet in my soul I know
No conception
Is hidden there down below
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
We gonna rise yeah,
High above the flames
Our hearts open as the endless sky
No more deception
No more shame
Just a reflection of the natural high
Ah, do you remember that melody?
Ah, oh yeah, do you remember that song so free?
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
Oh let us rise
Above the bones
Let us remember the memories
No more afraid
No more alone
Let our spirits fly so free
In my arms
A little child wrapped tight in prayer
Safe from harm, oh yeah
Ever guided by jah jah fire
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
I wanna go home
So take me home, home, nah nah nah
You take me home, home, yeah yeah yeah
You take me home nah nah yeah.......
Lyrics submitted by Sophic
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