"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.
Stare into the Sun
I’m the stirring in your night of peace
My dreams of lust will never let you sleep
I’m the thoughts you thought you’d never have
Act upon them and I’ll be glad
Pay the price for pleasure
Now, who said life was fair?
‘With you ‘til the day you die
my cross you must bear
Chorus:
Oh — you’ll never know fun
‘til you stare straight in — into the sun
Now your life has begun
C’mon and look right in — right into the sun
I’m the room from which there is…no escape
A simple mind trapped in this naked ape
I’m the reason for all self-control
Here to remind you that you’re but an animal
Chorus
Solo
Try and play by your rules
But there’s no way you’ll win
‘got your soul for ransom
so why don’t you give in…?
Chorus out
Dandelion
Hi, pretty dear,
Autumn’s walking in
And the grass in the field is dry
Flowers like you
love anew every year
there’s no time to call you mine
I’m a weed, and
No, you won’t believe it
Ain’t it grand how love is blind?
So, let the snow
Close your eyes for the night
And think of Dandelion
Oh how I wish
I could hold you near,
Felling our stems entwined
But I feel the breeze
of the wind and the trees
and I know that it means good-bye
See me bleeding
Do you have to see me like this?
Why must you watch me cry?
Just let the snow
close your pretty eyes
and think of your Dandelion…
I’m the stirring in your night of peace
My dreams of lust will never let you sleep
I’m the thoughts you thought you’d never have
Act upon them and I’ll be glad
Pay the price for pleasure
Now, who said life was fair?
‘With you ‘til the day you die
my cross you must bear
Chorus:
Oh — you’ll never know fun
‘til you stare straight in — into the sun
Now your life has begun
C’mon and look right in — right into the sun
I’m the room from which there is…no escape
A simple mind trapped in this naked ape
I’m the reason for all self-control
Here to remind you that you’re but an animal
Chorus
Solo
Try and play by your rules
But there’s no way you’ll win
‘got your soul for ransom
so why don’t you give in…?
Chorus out
Dandelion
Hi, pretty dear,
Autumn’s walking in
And the grass in the field is dry
Flowers like you
love anew every year
there’s no time to call you mine
I’m a weed, and
No, you won’t believe it
Ain’t it grand how love is blind?
So, let the snow
Close your eyes for the night
And think of Dandelion
Oh how I wish
I could hold you near,
Felling our stems entwined
But I feel the breeze
of the wind and the trees
and I know that it means good-bye
See me bleeding
Do you have to see me like this?
Why must you watch me cry?
Just let the snow
close your pretty eyes
and think of your Dandelion…
Lyrics submitted by seasideisme
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