"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.
I take a step to what's real
Or at least to what it is I'm chasing
Another step to reveal
All the shadows that I keep embracing
Failure forgets to fascinate
This light inside will resonate
Shame dissipates with open eyes
Refreshing fate I can't describe
This time it feels like I've been
Touched by a Supernova
Inside - the hand that touches hearts
Is touching mine
As I find my tears are all
Consumed by the Supernova
This time the hope that
Lights the world
Is in my eyes
There's a piece of my mind
That tries to fathom the stars or to
Contemplate the divine
Don't need to look very far
When you bring me
The reasons just to believe
You bring me answers
I can't conceive
How can I bring you doubt
When you bring me the sky?
This time it feels like I've been
Touched by a Supernova
Inside the hand that touches hearts
Is touching mine
As I find my tears are all
Consumed by the Supernova
This time the hope that
Lights the world
Is in my eyes
There's a light in my eyes
The light of the Supernova
Glowing in my eyes
Go Supernova.
Or at least to what it is I'm chasing
Another step to reveal
All the shadows that I keep embracing
Failure forgets to fascinate
This light inside will resonate
Shame dissipates with open eyes
Refreshing fate I can't describe
This time it feels like I've been
Touched by a Supernova
Inside - the hand that touches hearts
Is touching mine
As I find my tears are all
Consumed by the Supernova
This time the hope that
Lights the world
Is in my eyes
There's a piece of my mind
That tries to fathom the stars or to
Contemplate the divine
Don't need to look very far
When you bring me
The reasons just to believe
You bring me answers
I can't conceive
How can I bring you doubt
When you bring me the sky?
This time it feels like I've been
Touched by a Supernova
Inside the hand that touches hearts
Is touching mine
As I find my tears are all
Consumed by the Supernova
This time the hope that
Lights the world
Is in my eyes
There's a light in my eyes
The light of the Supernova
Glowing in my eyes
Go Supernova.
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Blue
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Page
Ed Sheeran
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