"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.
So few words
So few words
We are movin' round to the hour
Force from the power
Thunder reigns down in a mass mind shower
Levellin' vibes unravellin' scribes
Take a venomous sting that's unsettlin'
But consequences awaits me around the corner
Reminiscent of my twistin' fate
All down to the fact it's a hard life
Travel on with the sense of a telling adventure
So as I wait for the opportune time to create
Soul energy that will then enable me to realize
Analyze all aspect of man-made decision
The vision the many ways
Wrong turn right, right turn left
Ain't no way back straight ahead along track
Counteract react higher pace embrace
Expression when written on the face
Ya babblin' on flip automatic override
So when pride gets swallowed
Check the events that follow
Interconnection bafflin' coincidence
All going hand in hand
They demand supply I deliver my peace
In what can be known as my only release
In the belly-full beast tearin' up
And it's a cryin' shame it remains the same
Turn the next page over
So few words
So few words
Then on straight down
Through the valley I roam
Lay claim my terrain through my artery vein
But first intuition state my in condition is the reason
Why you'll never get my submission
True as I'm present in time
I'm headin' for the future
Movin' with a haste from time to waste
Break loose from a goose chase
What I do I take feathers and fly in spiritual sky
Return to ground zero zero
Now for the intrepid hero
Non-sense there will be no
I overrun 'cause unless I'm in a situation
I can learn a lesson in
One specimen away say a line refine
Humanity race ever being like one of a kind
Now we can never rewind so press
Forward to the end
With the passionate fruit from mother nature
So few words
So few words
So few words
We are movin' round to the hour
Force from the power
Thunder reigns down in a mass mind shower
Levellin' vibes unravellin' scribes
Take a venomous sting that's unsettlin'
But consequences awaits me around the corner
Reminiscent of my twistin' fate
All down to the fact it's a hard life
Travel on with the sense of a telling adventure
So as I wait for the opportune time to create
Soul energy that will then enable me to realize
Analyze all aspect of man-made decision
The vision the many ways
Wrong turn right, right turn left
Ain't no way back straight ahead along track
Counteract react higher pace embrace
Expression when written on the face
Ya babblin' on flip automatic override
So when pride gets swallowed
Check the events that follow
Interconnection bafflin' coincidence
All going hand in hand
They demand supply I deliver my peace
In what can be known as my only release
In the belly-full beast tearin' up
And it's a cryin' shame it remains the same
Turn the next page over
So few words
So few words
Then on straight down
Through the valley I roam
Lay claim my terrain through my artery vein
But first intuition state my in condition is the reason
Why you'll never get my submission
True as I'm present in time
I'm headin' for the future
Movin' with a haste from time to waste
Break loose from a goose chase
What I do I take feathers and fly in spiritual sky
Return to ground zero zero
Now for the intrepid hero
Non-sense there will be no
I overrun 'cause unless I'm in a situation
I can learn a lesson in
One specimen away say a line refine
Humanity race ever being like one of a kind
Now we can never rewind so press
Forward to the end
With the passionate fruit from mother nature
So few words
So few words
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So Few Words Lyrics as written by Darius Keeler Daniel Thomas Griffiths
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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