"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.
Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb
Oh, the seas ran dry and the winds had calmed
The skyscrapers fell and crumbled to dust
And the skeletons of steel were covered in rust
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Colors were drained straight from the sky
And nothing living had survived
Mountains were merely removed from the earth
And silver and gold had lost all its worth
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Oh, everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
I woke from the dream in a cold cold sweat
I was full of doubt and deep regret
For suddenly it was all so clear to me
There was nothing left in which to believe
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Oh, everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Oh, the seas ran dry and the winds had calmed
The skyscrapers fell and crumbled to dust
And the skeletons of steel were covered in rust
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Colors were drained straight from the sky
And nothing living had survived
Mountains were merely removed from the earth
And silver and gold had lost all its worth
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Oh, everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
I woke from the dream in a cold cold sweat
I was full of doubt and deep regret
For suddenly it was all so clear to me
There was nothing left in which to believe
And everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
Oh, everything I loved and feared
Had all at once disappeared
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Silver and Gold Lyrics as written by Dallas John Green
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Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb. Oh, the seas ran dry and the winds had calmed. The skyscrapers fell and crumbled to dust, And the skeletons of steel were covered in rust.
And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared.
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And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared Oh, everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared.