"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.
Broken hearts, broken homes
There's a war deep in motion
Fighting hard to find
Some kind of peace of mind
Breathing in, breathing out
Missing life, living doubt
Searching for a cure
Some kind of open door
Bring it back to the beginning
To the first taste of shame
A fallen world in waiting
Only one could take the blame
Fast forward to the ending
One truth remains
There's a miracle waiting
For all who speak His name
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Pleading the most worthy cause
For the innocence we lost
With his tears of blood
He started freedom's flood
As the world's opinions sway
My beliefs will not be changed
Nothing ever can take me from His hand
Bring it back to the beginning
To the first taste of shame
A fallen world in waiting
Only one could take the blame
Fast forward to the ending
One truth remains
There's a miracle waiting
For all who speak His name
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Yeah, sure I remember
Matter fact it was just last September
She still calls it the fall to remember
Little Heather when it all came together
Said you remember the first time you met us?
She cried when it rained and blamed the weather
But inside she strained with suicide letters
The kind of cold you couldn't warm with a sweater
Hardly lasted past December
Said she was headed down to defeat
That's the last you'd seen, and never had dreamed
That's the same little Heather It's who you saw last week
In an instant you couldn't have missed her gleam
As she listened She looked like a distant queen
With a difference there for all to see
She found a different, a different kind of free
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
It's so much different
It's a different kind of free
And it's here for you and me
It's a different kind of free
And it's here to set you free
It's a different kind of free
There's a war deep in motion
Fighting hard to find
Some kind of peace of mind
Breathing in, breathing out
Missing life, living doubt
Searching for a cure
Some kind of open door
Bring it back to the beginning
To the first taste of shame
A fallen world in waiting
Only one could take the blame
Fast forward to the ending
One truth remains
There's a miracle waiting
For all who speak His name
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Pleading the most worthy cause
For the innocence we lost
With his tears of blood
He started freedom's flood
As the world's opinions sway
My beliefs will not be changed
Nothing ever can take me from His hand
Bring it back to the beginning
To the first taste of shame
A fallen world in waiting
Only one could take the blame
Fast forward to the ending
One truth remains
There's a miracle waiting
For all who speak His name
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Yeah, sure I remember
Matter fact it was just last September
She still calls it the fall to remember
Little Heather when it all came together
Said you remember the first time you met us?
She cried when it rained and blamed the weather
But inside she strained with suicide letters
The kind of cold you couldn't warm with a sweater
Hardly lasted past December
Said she was headed down to defeat
That's the last you'd seen, and never had dreamed
That's the same little Heather It's who you saw last week
In an instant you couldn't have missed her gleam
As she listened She looked like a distant queen
With a difference there for all to see
She found a different, a different kind of free
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
Take my life, my liberty
It's all but a breath in the grand scheme of things
Oh, I have found eternity
It's a different kind of free
And they can't take it from me
It's so much different
It's a different kind of free
And it's here for you and me
It's a different kind of free
And it's here to set you free
It's a different kind of free
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