"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.
Biniirugasa no hana wo tojita
Ameagari shika de nai sora
Nanka totemo Subarashii no de
Kimi mo mite itara ii no ni naa
Yuudachi Yande Higurashi naku
Boku no netsu ga agatteku
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsumo namida Hitotsu setsunaku
Kirameki kirari
Yurameki yurari
Sonna fuu ni kimi to iretara ii no ni
Fui ni totsuzen Shiryobukai hatsugen
Boku wo bikkuri saserun da
Bonyari suru Ki no sei ja nai
Koi no yamai tte hontou da
Suiteki Namanuruku nijimu
Nakimushi wa kimi no uso
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsumo namida Hitotsu setsunaku
Akogare kogare
Tasogare kogare
Zenbu omoidoori ni nareba ii no ni ne
Boku no netsu ga agatteku, boku no chi ga koku natte----.
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsuka namida Sora ni kaeshite
Kirameki kirari
Yurameki yurari
Sonna fuu ni kimi to iretara
Niji iro gaarufurendo
Yumeiro gaarufurendo
Kimi no egao ga niji wo watatte todoku
Ameagari shika de nai sora
Nanka totemo Subarashii no de
Kimi mo mite itara ii no ni naa
Yuudachi Yande Higurashi naku
Boku no netsu ga agatteku
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsumo namida Hitotsu setsunaku
Kirameki kirari
Yurameki yurari
Sonna fuu ni kimi to iretara ii no ni
Fui ni totsuzen Shiryobukai hatsugen
Boku wo bikkuri saserun da
Bonyari suru Ki no sei ja nai
Koi no yamai tte hontou da
Suiteki Namanuruku nijimu
Nakimushi wa kimi no uso
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsumo namida Hitotsu setsunaku
Akogare kogare
Tasogare kogare
Zenbu omoidoori ni nareba ii no ni ne
Boku no netsu ga agatteku, boku no chi ga koku natte----.
Mizuiro gaarufurendo
Ameiro gaarufurendo
Itsuka namida Sora ni kaeshite
Kirameki kirari
Yurameki yurari
Sonna fuu ni kimi to iretara
Niji iro gaarufurendo
Yumeiro gaarufurendo
Kimi no egao ga niji wo watatte todoku
Lyrics submitted by rainberry
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