"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.
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
Hail Knight in shining armor
The emperor's decree
The clock strikes midnight hour
Arrive from gay Paris
A world of games and duels
And secret go-betweens
Throw marks or pounds or rubels
Pay life to share the scene
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
A court of fallen angels
Below the guillotine
Betrayed by nightly rangers
Doomed unforgiven sin
The struggle of the classes
The birth of bourgeoisie
Beheaded by the masses
By God that queen was me
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
Hail Knight in shining armor
The emperor's decree
The clock strikes midnight hour
Arrive from gay Paris
A world of games and duels
And secret go-betweens
Throw marks or pounds or rubels
Pay life to share the scene
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
A court of fallen angels
Below the guillotine
Betrayed by nightly rangers
Doomed unforgiven sin
The struggle of the classes
The birth of bourgeoisie
Beheaded by the masses
By God that queen was me
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The ballrooms of Versailles
Like dragons riding high
(Dragons riding high)
We dance the nights away
Life is glam and gay
Fountains cry Tokai
At ballrooms of Versailles
The gardens where we play
(Gardens where we play)
The queen has gone astray
Salute Czar Nicolai
The night the party died
At ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
Ballrooms of Versailles
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Ballrooms of Versailles Lyrics as written by Anders Wilhelm Wollbeck Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard
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