"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.
Echo stutters across a room
Trembling noises that come too soon
Spacial movements which seems to near
Resonating a mask of fear
Hollow talk and a hollow gain
Thoughts set out for the root of pain
Never said it was good, never said it was near
shadow rises when you are here
And then you cut
You cut it up
And everything goes back to the beginning
Silence seazes a cluttered room
Light is shed not a breath too soon
Darkness rises and all you do
Is tighten your jaw and cross the room
Spacial movements are born of light
Shadow scatter without a fight
It has never been bad there has always been truth
Muted wisper the things you move
And then you cut
You cut it up
And everything goes back to the beginning
Trembling noises that come too soon
Spacial movements which seems to near
Resonating a mask of fear
Hollow talk and a hollow gain
Thoughts set out for the root of pain
Never said it was good, never said it was near
shadow rises when you are here
And then you cut
You cut it up
And everything goes back to the beginning
Silence seazes a cluttered room
Light is shed not a breath too soon
Darkness rises and all you do
Is tighten your jaw and cross the room
Spacial movements are born of light
Shadow scatter without a fight
It has never been bad there has always been truth
Muted wisper the things you move
And then you cut
You cut it up
And everything goes back to the beginning
Lyrics submitted by tanderson1812, edited by paxfilosoof
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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