"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, in time, the trees die and light will fade.
But I hope for a new breath,
a new life to take me away.
Oh, in time, the trees die and light will fade
But I hope for a breath a new life to take me away.
Let us pretend we've got it together
Let us ignore the coming sun
We'll sing the body electric until machine and soul are one.
I've seen the tweaked struggle, syringes lined his floor.
A cycle churned to life by dead end jobs and a government's war.
In time the trees die and light will fade.
But I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
One by one the monsters trample.
Through woods and dirt they feed.
What sort of world and plight for our children must we leave?
Let us burn the nation's budget.
Let's send boys overseas to fight ghosts in the desert instead of teaching them to give and lead.
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
Oh in time, the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away now.
We sing in time
We sing in time
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath a new light to take me away
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
Oh in time
We sing in time
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life.
But I hope for a new breath,
a new life to take me away.
Oh, in time, the trees die and light will fade
But I hope for a breath a new life to take me away.
Let us pretend we've got it together
Let us ignore the coming sun
We'll sing the body electric until machine and soul are one.
I've seen the tweaked struggle, syringes lined his floor.
A cycle churned to life by dead end jobs and a government's war.
In time the trees die and light will fade.
But I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
One by one the monsters trample.
Through woods and dirt they feed.
What sort of world and plight for our children must we leave?
Let us burn the nation's budget.
Let's send boys overseas to fight ghosts in the desert instead of teaching them to give and lead.
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
Oh in time, the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away now.
We sing in time
We sing in time
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath a new light to take me away
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life to take me away.
Oh in time
We sing in time
Oh in time the trees die and light will fade but I hope for a new breath, a new life.
Lyrics submitted by thestormtonight, edited by charcoalsketch
We Sing in Time Lyrics as written by Anthony Dane Ruland Anthony Ruland
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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