"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.
Did you know your angel never glows or shows?
She will watch over you, all you do till you’re blue
Did you see a fire in the sky so high?
I was there when a tear in your soul made a hole
Can you be a free part inside of me?
Can you hold till I’m old,
Till I gracefully mold
Mirror me, erase guilted family
There I lied, when I died, our worlds were tried
Where I hide, float aside I am lost in the tide
There I lied where angels cried and angels wept
There you sighed when our souls aligned when demons slept
Here I sleep where poor boys weep and pray to stars
There I creep where my open seat is close but far
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Everyday a meteorite makes its way
Atmosphere can’t delay with the fire it lays
Hold your hand up to the sky and hear my band
Every note will uncoat your blinded hope
Stay in dark a broken harp will play a grassless park
There I lied where angels cried and angels wept
There you sighed when our souls aligned when demons slept
Here I sleep where poor boys weep and pray to stars
There I creep where my open seat is close but far
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Did you know your angel never glows or shows?
She will watch over you, all you do till you’re blue
Did you see a fire in the sky so high?
I was there when a tear in your soul made a hole
She will watch over you, all you do till you’re blue
Did you see a fire in the sky so high?
I was there when a tear in your soul made a hole
Can you be a free part inside of me?
Can you hold till I’m old,
Till I gracefully mold
Mirror me, erase guilted family
There I lied, when I died, our worlds were tried
Where I hide, float aside I am lost in the tide
There I lied where angels cried and angels wept
There you sighed when our souls aligned when demons slept
Here I sleep where poor boys weep and pray to stars
There I creep where my open seat is close but far
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Everyday a meteorite makes its way
Atmosphere can’t delay with the fire it lays
Hold your hand up to the sky and hear my band
Every note will uncoat your blinded hope
Stay in dark a broken harp will play a grassless park
There I lied where angels cried and angels wept
There you sighed when our souls aligned when demons slept
Here I sleep where poor boys weep and pray to stars
There I creep where my open seat is close but far
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Boy of the stars
Did you know your angel never glows or shows?
She will watch over you, all you do till you’re blue
Did you see a fire in the sky so high?
I was there when a tear in your soul made a hole
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Pandora introduced me to this song, and it is fantastic! Definitely going to check out the rest of their stuff.
same hereee!! i just read some of their other lyrics and have heard a couple other songs love them!-