"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.
Plead!
To be released in your void which has consumed
Us far too many times before we promised ourselves
That we wouldn't succumb to the dissonance
This fractured state, has engulfed, our, sense of worth
Beg!
So polished, you're gleaming with light
Too tempting resisting with all our might
Blinded soul on a misguided flight
Silence the, demons lethal appetite
Seeking refuge from this
Burden which has all but
Torn and worn us to shreds
This blinding conclusion
Has diverted the inevitable
Guiding us back to you
Focus on the pain
Our only fragment of reality
Wade through this disdain
The only sanctity we've ever contained
Worship your demons, let them mold and guide you
Worship your demons, but do not let them inside you
Worship your demons, let them mold and calm you
Worship your demons, but do not let them control you
This fractured state, has engulfed, our, sens of worth
Beg!
To be released in your void which has consumed
Us far too many times before we promised ourselves
That we wouldn't succumb to the dissonance
This fractured state, has engulfed, our, sense of worth
Beg!
So polished, you're gleaming with light
Too tempting resisting with all our might
Blinded soul on a misguided flight
Silence the, demons lethal appetite
Seeking refuge from this
Burden which has all but
Torn and worn us to shreds
This blinding conclusion
Has diverted the inevitable
Guiding us back to you
Focus on the pain
Our only fragment of reality
Wade through this disdain
The only sanctity we've ever contained
Worship your demons, let them mold and guide you
Worship your demons, but do not let them inside you
Worship your demons, let them mold and calm you
Worship your demons, but do not let them control you
This fractured state, has engulfed, our, sens of worth
Beg!
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