"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.
What have I gained
By giving the world my everything?
It's never been such a struggle
To regress to what I was yesterday.
But today, I seem so far away.
I'm waiting on the world to sing
The song I've been singing.
I'm waiting on the world to sink
The way I've been sinking.
The way I've been sinking.
I've given too much away
Over these past few years
And this is ending today.
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I have fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
Do you still see me as beautiful?
Carry me home,
Lighten my stagger.
My conscience is weak.
I'm begging for reparation.
I am deficient of hope, deficient of hope.
Refine me with fire.
Refine me with fire, oh God.
Refine me with fire.
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I've fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I've fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
I'll never find my place on Earth.
I'll never find, I'll never find my place
My place on Earth.
I'll never find my place on Earth.
But I refuse to fade away, to fade away.
By giving the world my everything?
It's never been such a struggle
To regress to what I was yesterday.
But today, I seem so far away.
I'm waiting on the world to sing
The song I've been singing.
I'm waiting on the world to sink
The way I've been sinking.
The way I've been sinking.
I've given too much away
Over these past few years
And this is ending today.
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I have fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
Do you still see me as beautiful?
Carry me home,
Lighten my stagger.
My conscience is weak.
I'm begging for reparation.
I am deficient of hope, deficient of hope.
Refine me with fire.
Refine me with fire, oh God.
Refine me with fire.
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I've fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
There's pain in my eyes like I've never known.
I've fallen short.
Do you still see me as beautiful?
I'll never find my place on Earth.
I'll never find, I'll never find my place
My place on Earth.
I'll never find my place on Earth.
But I refuse to fade away, to fade away.
Lyrics submitted by Thormy
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