"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.
Stare into my Kodack room
Jackhammer eyes never thought you'd see the asphalt
Crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell
Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
You're not a shovel and I'm not your dirt
Is there any way to unswallow my pride
Can I fuck myself down
While I die you can kill the father
Dad is missing an E
No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer present tense
No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer pre-sentence
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no
No reason
I am overneath
I am overneath
I won't regret letting you live
Even if you forgot what you never saved me from
So I say whatever or for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
Whatever
The rape of Persephone was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks
The rape of Persephone was a marketing scheme
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
I am overneath
I am overneath
Overneath overneath
Unbeloved
Cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart
I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery
Overneath overneath
Unbeloved
Cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart
I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery
I am overneath
I am overneath
No no no no no reason
No no no no no reason
No no no no no reason
Jackhammer eyes never thought you'd see the asphalt
Crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell
Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
You're not a shovel and I'm not your dirt
Is there any way to unswallow my pride
Can I fuck myself down
While I die you can kill the father
Dad is missing an E
No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer present tense
No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer pre-sentence
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no
No reason
I am overneath
I am overneath
I won't regret letting you live
Even if you forgot what you never saved me from
So I say whatever or for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
For, for, for, for fallen for never
Whatever
The rape of Persephone was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks
The rape of Persephone was a marketing scheme
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
Rape, rape, rape Persephone
I am overneath
I am overneath
Overneath overneath
Unbeloved
Cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart
I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery
Overneath overneath
Unbeloved
Cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart
I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery
I am overneath
I am overneath
No no no no no reason
No no no no no reason
No no no no no reason
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You forgot to mension about the first texts took from the tempest of shakespear:
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” [William Shakespeare]