"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.
[Sailing In the Arms of the Ocean - Instrumental]
[Be My Temple]
A siren voice, a symphony walking silently in her eyes
A dreaming grace, a liquid cage in the absence of light
Shining star, look me inside
Resounds in the silence a sweet embrace
Hanging clouds, infinite rain
A candle's burning into darkness
Dissolve the clouds, celestial words and the darkness will fade away
A mind will fear perpetual eyes in a forming desire
April morning, flowing inside
Arrive the eternal ecstatic skies
In a sunrise, the sun in my vanishing mind
Be my temple, goddess of mind
A cradle of my never-ending desire
Eyes of a desert, storming wind
Image of heaven inside me
Inside of me
[Moving Silhouettes]
God's creations, revelations flowing through my mind
Surrealistic pictures, ghosts revealing the divine
God heal my mind from spirits inside
Nature cries, the evil ways are filling darkest brains
And the secret hidden in my tears beside your eyes
God hear my cry, sweet lullaby
[Against My Own Mind - Instrumental]
[Baptism of Flaming Waters]
God! Break the horrifying chain of the martyr inside of me!
Driving in silence the force that is powering dreams on my mind
Driven by holy angels, my spirit flies through distance in time
Moonlight burns in the darkness, configuring all my life
Dissolved minds, desolate hearts asking for life
In a bloodline, destiny lies in a sunrise
Cathedrals of fire, marvelous desire
The image of God
Baptize me water, caressing my heart
Crawling, embracing the gates of Utopia
The path of the nymph calling me from the other side
The day has come and the secret of soul talks to you, fragile mind
Talks to you, fragile mind
[Be My Temple]
A siren voice, a symphony walking silently in her eyes
A dreaming grace, a liquid cage in the absence of light
Shining star, look me inside
Resounds in the silence a sweet embrace
Hanging clouds, infinite rain
A candle's burning into darkness
Dissolve the clouds, celestial words and the darkness will fade away
A mind will fear perpetual eyes in a forming desire
April morning, flowing inside
Arrive the eternal ecstatic skies
In a sunrise, the sun in my vanishing mind
Be my temple, goddess of mind
A cradle of my never-ending desire
Eyes of a desert, storming wind
Image of heaven inside me
Inside of me
[Moving Silhouettes]
God's creations, revelations flowing through my mind
Surrealistic pictures, ghosts revealing the divine
God heal my mind from spirits inside
Nature cries, the evil ways are filling darkest brains
And the secret hidden in my tears beside your eyes
God hear my cry, sweet lullaby
[Against My Own Mind - Instrumental]
[Baptism of Flaming Waters]
God! Break the horrifying chain of the martyr inside of me!
Driving in silence the force that is powering dreams on my mind
Driven by holy angels, my spirit flies through distance in time
Moonlight burns in the darkness, configuring all my life
Dissolved minds, desolate hearts asking for life
In a bloodline, destiny lies in a sunrise
Cathedrals of fire, marvelous desire
The image of God
Baptize me water, caressing my heart
Crawling, embracing the gates of Utopia
The path of the nymph calling me from the other side
The day has come and the secret of soul talks to you, fragile mind
Talks to you, fragile mind
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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