"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.
A time to laugh, a time to cry
And beat the darkness into light
We'll write our names across the town
Up is up and so is down
Forgive your lovers, but don't forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
The stings our fingers just won't go
Chrome letters, outlines, arrows fall
The words took off, we watched them fall
Desire of our mind is now written on the wall
Forgive your lovers, but don't forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
How vast the darkness
We disappear into the light
Follow the torch we made
In the end, we're all made of gold
And now I know, I will not be saved
Unless I follow
And now I know, I will not be saved
Unless I follow
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
If you lead, I will follow
And beat the darkness into light
We'll write our names across the town
Up is up and so is down
Forgive your lovers, but don't forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
The stings our fingers just won't go
Chrome letters, outlines, arrows fall
The words took off, we watched them fall
Desire of our mind is now written on the wall
Forgive your lovers, but don't forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
How vast the darkness
We disappear into the light
Follow the torch we made
In the end, we're all made of gold
And now I know, I will not be saved
Unless I follow
And now I know, I will not be saved
Unless I follow
Stay gold, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow, gold
You shine the light for us to follow
If you lead, I will follow
Lyrics submitted by TheWrongGirl
Stay Gold Lyrics as written by Lavarak Milo Napoleon Cordell Abraham Orellana
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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