"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.
From the beginning a novel sworn in romance
A display of two statues revealed
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
Swept underneath our emotions burden inside
We find ourselves searching, hoping,
For a muse in the night to bring relief
An endless search for some a masked silhouette
Dancing in shadows our greatest fears
Resistance to desire
(Resistance)
Swept underneath our emotions burden inside
We find ourselves searching, hoping
For a muse in the night
Colliding within we torch ourselves
A full flowing chalice of apathy
We know that this is the end our past a kindled undying flare
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
Swept underneath our emotions we find ourselves
A display of two statues revealed
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
Swept underneath our emotions burden inside
We find ourselves searching, hoping,
For a muse in the night to bring relief
An endless search for some a masked silhouette
Dancing in shadows our greatest fears
Resistance to desire
(Resistance)
Swept underneath our emotions burden inside
We find ourselves searching, hoping
For a muse in the night
Colliding within we torch ourselves
A full flowing chalice of apathy
We know that this is the end our past a kindled undying flare
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
We cast it all hoping for a bit of desire
Swept underneath our emotions we find ourselves
Lyrics submitted by xturnandforfeitx
Resistance Lyrics as written by Mike Okubo Brandon Butler
Lyrics © KILLPHONIC
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