"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.
Out of the sea the isle of kings
For those followers just and true
Sturdy captains of the spray
Beneath the great pillar’s view
But wayward words can bewitch and bend
Forge an ignoble fate
Warp and deceive the purest of wills
Sand a land to watery grave
Cold winds and pouring rain
Smashes the beams as we fight the raging sea
Cold winds and pouring rain
Harries the sails as we flee the sacred isle
Fallen lords ever clinging to life
In chambers rich enshrined
Allegiance lent to malignant powers
Black prayers and sacrifice
Lures to assail the undying lands
A voyage of ruinous doom
With sorry hearts the faithfull fly
And a seed of the white tree’s bloom
For those followers just and true
Sturdy captains of the spray
Beneath the great pillar’s view
But wayward words can bewitch and bend
Forge an ignoble fate
Warp and deceive the purest of wills
Sand a land to watery grave
Cold winds and pouring rain
Smashes the beams as we fight the raging sea
Cold winds and pouring rain
Harries the sails as we flee the sacred isle
Fallen lords ever clinging to life
In chambers rich enshrined
Allegiance lent to malignant powers
Black prayers and sacrifice
Lures to assail the undying lands
A voyage of ruinous doom
With sorry hearts the faithfull fly
And a seed of the white tree’s bloom
Lyrics submitted by puje
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I was a bit surprised Forefather would write song about Tolkien's works, I figured their lyrics were a bit more "serious" but still cool none the less.