"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.
Die toeskouers se breindood glimlae raak te veel vir my
Die pyn van verwaantheid
martel al die murg
by my gebeendere uit
Vir almal wat onkundig is
wees bly
Gee vir my jou siel
of ek sal hom moet steel
Ek is seker maar net verveeld
Ek is seker maar net verveeld
Wat moet ek doen om weer lewendig te voel?
Ek is die haat wat jou forseer
om jouself aan te rand
Ek is die pyn wat wegkruip
in als wat jy wil versteek
Ek is die wroeging in jou waansin
die geluk wat jy wegeet
ek is die een wat jou wil red
en dan martel
Wat is fout met my?
Kan ek 'n professionele diagnose kry?
Ek wil net nie verveeld wees in
hierdie lewenslang kleedrepitisie nie
Is die monster wat jou jaag
emosionele progressie?
Is jy die enigste vyand van
spirituele tegnologie?
Ons oë is vervang met skerms
en ons siele met prentjies van die see
Daar's nog baie bier
om te drink
en kak om te praat
voor ons die wêreld begin regmaak
My kop raas al vir dae
en my fokkin oë
bly fokkin swaar
Daar's nog baie brein
om te spoel
voor die verlore gevoel
gaan verdwyn
so, hello toetssein
Toetssein
Toets my
Die pyn van verwaantheid
martel al die murg
by my gebeendere uit
Vir almal wat onkundig is
wees bly
Gee vir my jou siel
of ek sal hom moet steel
Ek is seker maar net verveeld
Ek is seker maar net verveeld
Wat moet ek doen om weer lewendig te voel?
Ek is die haat wat jou forseer
om jouself aan te rand
Ek is die pyn wat wegkruip
in als wat jy wil versteek
Ek is die wroeging in jou waansin
die geluk wat jy wegeet
ek is die een wat jou wil red
en dan martel
Wat is fout met my?
Kan ek 'n professionele diagnose kry?
Ek wil net nie verveeld wees in
hierdie lewenslang kleedrepitisie nie
Is die monster wat jou jaag
emosionele progressie?
Is jy die enigste vyand van
spirituele tegnologie?
Ons oë is vervang met skerms
en ons siele met prentjies van die see
Daar's nog baie bier
om te drink
en kak om te praat
voor ons die wêreld begin regmaak
My kop raas al vir dae
en my fokkin oë
bly fokkin swaar
Daar's nog baie brein
om te spoel
voor die verlore gevoel
gaan verdwyn
so, hello toetssein
Toetssein
Toets my
Lyrics submitted by cinabeat
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