"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.
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Who has chased away the moonbeams?
Who has pulled a blanket across the sky?
Who will sing in celebration
Throughout this land that's bound to die?
Oh that's bound to dies.
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Who will put an end to all this sadness?
Who hears the earth that cries beneath the burning rain?
All truth reduced to piles of greed and madness
The accident remains the same
Great spirit come oh
Always the same
Great spirit come mm, said it's alright, seems okay
Robbery and evil and the stealing
From the body and the mind for the healing
Of the spirit and the pride and the will and the will of the land
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Grace, courage, honesty and love
There's evil, there's evil, there's evil going on
Great spirit come, great spirit come
I love my brother, I must share the seed
That falls through fortune at my feet
The fate of nations and of all their deeds
Lies trapped inside these hearts of greed,
Ooh - oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Come on, come on, come on
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Ooh yeah. ooh yeah,
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Come on, come on, come on
The will of the land
Great spirit, great spirit come
The will of the land
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration, celebration
Sing in celebration, now now now now sing in celebration
Who has chased away the moonbeams?
Who has pulled a blanket across the sky?
Who will sing in celebration
Throughout this land that's bound to die?
Oh that's bound to dies.
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Who will put an end to all this sadness?
Who hears the earth that cries beneath the burning rain?
All truth reduced to piles of greed and madness
The accident remains the same
Great spirit come oh
Always the same
Great spirit come mm, said it's alright, seems okay
Robbery and evil and the stealing
From the body and the mind for the healing
Of the spirit and the pride and the will and the will of the land
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Grace, courage, honesty and love
There's evil, there's evil, there's evil going on
Great spirit come, great spirit come
I love my brother, I must share the seed
That falls through fortune at my feet
The fate of nations and of all their deeds
Lies trapped inside these hearts of greed,
Ooh - oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Come on, come on, come on
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Ooh yeah. ooh yeah,
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Grace, courage, honesty and love
Great spirit come, great spirit come
Come on, come on, come on
The will of the land
Great spirit, great spirit come
The will of the land
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration
Ooh, we'll sing in celebration, celebration
Sing in celebration, now now now now sing in celebration
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Great Spirit Lyrics as written by Philip Merriam Johnstone Kevin Macmichael
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