"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.
Hear unto my voice this prophetic sound
Retreat into sacred solitude
Symbols and signs bear fruit to the wind
Horizons yield seething towers of hate
Insular strength- Invincible
Pay homage to the coming fall
I am the Bringer of Fire to the people
A sacred Entity against mass
Journey the ways that soon be followed
The rebel titan Prometheus
Plunging into distant Fears
Incandescent and alone
Crowning myself with bloodied hands
Standing out amongst the fallen
In defiance I shout a caustic cry
Invoke invisible Power invincible
The Star shattered Dawn
The beholden Spirit of Destiny
I am He...
One is Strength and One is Wisdom
One thwarts the bleak collapsing fall
One attains the gifts of Reason
Empowered with the bitter Truth
Through suffering perseverance to the end
One Strength emerges Frozen in Steel
Dark brooding ways come close at hand
Bearing the Light of a new day
Tribulate occupy the decayed thrones
As sweet as fire
Glorious Dawn upon the Plateau of Might
Now burns
Straining laughter forth from my mouth
A peal of chimes crowning death
I will bear the children of the world
Carry the Wise on the shoulders of fools
Spite and spit guide sight to the rest
Who in the distance wither and die
Bolts of Fear (of pain, of disease)
Father Struggle awaits in ambush
Winds buffet with no known recourse
A challenge in Glory and Force...
Back to Plateau of Invincibility
Retreat into sacred solitude
Symbols and signs bear fruit to the wind
Horizons yield seething towers of hate
Insular strength- Invincible
Pay homage to the coming fall
I am the Bringer of Fire to the people
A sacred Entity against mass
Journey the ways that soon be followed
The rebel titan Prometheus
Plunging into distant Fears
Incandescent and alone
Crowning myself with bloodied hands
Standing out amongst the fallen
In defiance I shout a caustic cry
Invoke invisible Power invincible
The Star shattered Dawn
The beholden Spirit of Destiny
I am He...
One is Strength and One is Wisdom
One thwarts the bleak collapsing fall
One attains the gifts of Reason
Empowered with the bitter Truth
Through suffering perseverance to the end
One Strength emerges Frozen in Steel
Dark brooding ways come close at hand
Bearing the Light of a new day
Tribulate occupy the decayed thrones
As sweet as fire
Glorious Dawn upon the Plateau of Might
Now burns
Straining laughter forth from my mouth
A peal of chimes crowning death
I will bear the children of the world
Carry the Wise on the shoulders of fools
Spite and spit guide sight to the rest
Who in the distance wither and die
Bolts of Fear (of pain, of disease)
Father Struggle awaits in ambush
Winds buffet with no known recourse
A challenge in Glory and Force...
Back to Plateau of Invincibility
Lyrics submitted by AidanDies
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