"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.
Hello sneaking man
You want to fix my mind
But I don't care for you
Your smile and the other lies
You were crawling around my bed
Sure I was afraid
Lord could you see my blood
And could you hear my prayer
Ooh let them burn
Ooh let them burn
Lost in your coldness
I couldn't know the rest
When the fear is a jaw
Have you ever been drawned ?
Oh yes I'm falling
I always fall down
Ooh let them burn
I know you never doubt
But the day will come I hope
You gonna get the rope
You gonna have the snake around your sweet neck...
Lying in a place for nobody else
Words won't pass your mouth
I'm gonna bury your sufficiency
Deep in my own south
Well, I've tried to be patient
Oh Lord my prayer can't
I can't hear you any more
You're nothing more and more
Ooh let them burn
Ooh let them burn
Can't you feel the wound ?
And did you see the bounds
Have you ever heard a big breath ?
Hurricanes of skin
Torrents of frailness
Can't you feel the wound ?
An indian fury
An indian Riot
I feel the wound that's all
I feel the wound that's all.
You want to fix my mind
But I don't care for you
Your smile and the other lies
You were crawling around my bed
Sure I was afraid
Lord could you see my blood
And could you hear my prayer
Ooh let them burn
Ooh let them burn
Lost in your coldness
I couldn't know the rest
When the fear is a jaw
Have you ever been drawned ?
Oh yes I'm falling
I always fall down
Ooh let them burn
I know you never doubt
But the day will come I hope
You gonna get the rope
You gonna have the snake around your sweet neck...
Lying in a place for nobody else
Words won't pass your mouth
I'm gonna bury your sufficiency
Deep in my own south
Well, I've tried to be patient
Oh Lord my prayer can't
I can't hear you any more
You're nothing more and more
Ooh let them burn
Ooh let them burn
Can't you feel the wound ?
And did you see the bounds
Have you ever heard a big breath ?
Hurricanes of skin
Torrents of frailness
Can't you feel the wound ?
An indian fury
An indian Riot
I feel the wound that's all
I feel the wound that's all.
Lyrics submitted by ecorchee1
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