"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.
In this ethereal light we meet again
It must be forever
So welcoming but it is not my time
I must return
So many visions I see of tomorrow
What is lost is never gone
Questions we have, answers we'll find
I believe the end is never really the end
I believe this life is not the only one
I believe there is another world for me (I've been there before)
I have seen eternity
Somewhere far away angels are dreaming (waiting to see us again)
Somewhere far away angels are flying (on their way home)
I've learned all that I will know
Given all there is for me to give
I guided the way, I bore the truth
Given life back to what was gone
You gave me the world
Now the time has come for me to see you again
Now I now know where I am to go
Today god is playing god
This is goodbye but not farewell
For the end is never really the end
We will one day meet again
And fly together hand in hand
After the show when we take a bow
And walk away from this world,
Without a tear, regret or fight
We'll exit this grand stage we call life
(I watched you from the day that you were born)
(Now it is time to see you again)
(From the first emerald rain)
(To the embrace of our spirits)
(Your message there is done)
(Your time at last has come)
Warming light surrounding me
The astral sun is blinding my eyes
Vertigo consuming me
My soul is beginning to lift away
I hear my angels from heaven calling me
Ready to take me away to their islands in the sky
I once feared this moment as a child
But eternal life is before me
Here I am standing tall
Reaching for the clouds, staring at the sky
I have spread my wings ready to fly
With my very last breath of life I cry
(Kingdom of forever, now I'm coming home)
It must be forever
So welcoming but it is not my time
I must return
So many visions I see of tomorrow
What is lost is never gone
Questions we have, answers we'll find
I believe the end is never really the end
I believe this life is not the only one
I believe there is another world for me (I've been there before)
I have seen eternity
Somewhere far away angels are dreaming (waiting to see us again)
Somewhere far away angels are flying (on their way home)
I've learned all that I will know
Given all there is for me to give
I guided the way, I bore the truth
Given life back to what was gone
You gave me the world
Now the time has come for me to see you again
Now I now know where I am to go
Today god is playing god
This is goodbye but not farewell
For the end is never really the end
We will one day meet again
And fly together hand in hand
After the show when we take a bow
And walk away from this world,
Without a tear, regret or fight
We'll exit this grand stage we call life
(I watched you from the day that you were born)
(Now it is time to see you again)
(From the first emerald rain)
(To the embrace of our spirits)
(Your message there is done)
(Your time at last has come)
Warming light surrounding me
The astral sun is blinding my eyes
Vertigo consuming me
My soul is beginning to lift away
I hear my angels from heaven calling me
Ready to take me away to their islands in the sky
I once feared this moment as a child
But eternal life is before me
Here I am standing tall
Reaching for the clouds, staring at the sky
I have spread my wings ready to fly
With my very last breath of life I cry
(Kingdom of forever, now I'm coming home)
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
Sunlight of the Spirit, Part IV - Images of Eden Lyrics as written by L. Dean Harris Gordon Tittsworth
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