"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.
Hold out for the revelation
You're assured a transformation
You will be a new creation
Yeah, Yeah
He'll restore you to mint condition
He will give you a newfound vision
Fill your heart with a worthy mission
Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
It's a trip that's worth taking
It will heal the heart that's aching
It's the truth and I'm not faking
Yeah, yeah
You can feel it in your heart and soul always
It will change the way
you see the world everyday
Be a soldier of light
A song in the language of love,
Yeah yeah yeah
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
There ain't no reason to be down
Stand like a city free and proud
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
Repeat
You're assured a transformation
You will be a new creation
Yeah, Yeah
He'll restore you to mint condition
He will give you a newfound vision
Fill your heart with a worthy mission
Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
It's a trip that's worth taking
It will heal the heart that's aching
It's the truth and I'm not faking
Yeah, yeah
You can feel it in your heart and soul always
It will change the way
you see the world everyday
Be a soldier of light
A song in the language of love,
Yeah yeah yeah
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
There ain't no reason to be down
Stand like a city free and proud
To the proud, to the meek
To the strong, to the weak
yeah yeah yeah
Brown and yellow
Black and white
You are precious in His sight
Yeah, do it in God's will
Be a City on Hill
Repeat
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City on a Hill Lyrics as written by Cindy Morgan Chris Rodriguez
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