"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.
Hey, it's dying season
Bodies dropping in an endless grave
Promise, promise broken
Liver are lost, dissolved in vain
War, war and treason
Power minds set the stage
Loss, loss of reason
Disappearing in an endless rage
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Hey, crying season
Bombs are blasting with a deadly force
Tears, tears are falling
A river stained must change its course
Lost, lost forever
Sacrifice is fate's reward
Time, everlasting
Only memories and timeless scars
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Wars result, is it really worth the cost?
So much pain, the suffering never ends
War and fate, is where the bullets fly
Dust to dust, when death and life collide
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Bodies dropping in an endless grave
Promise, promise broken
Liver are lost, dissolved in vain
War, war and treason
Power minds set the stage
Loss, loss of reason
Disappearing in an endless rage
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Hey, crying season
Bombs are blasting with a deadly force
Tears, tears are falling
A river stained must change its course
Lost, lost forever
Sacrifice is fate's reward
Time, everlasting
Only memories and timeless scars
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Wars result, is it really worth the cost?
So much pain, the suffering never ends
War and fate, is where the bullets fly
Dust to dust, when death and life collide
Fist full of sand, mouth full of disdain
Stepping stones melt into flames
Ancient methods historically stained
Soldiers marching onward into dust
Cradle the crying, extol the dying
Blood shed like paint to the wall
Sanity scarring, a prayer underlying
A season, a lifetime to fall
Crack in the sky, black is the night
A towering shadow divides,
Piercing creation, sever a nation
Compose a season to die
Lyrics submitted by VezzyRattlehead
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