"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.
The wider is connected to the smaller
All is one and one is all
Maelstrom of connecting elements
Embracing absolute nothingness
Melting into useless stripes,
Moving to nowhere with purposeless destination
Through time and space
In brotherhood with an abstract presence
In a sphere of absurd vacuum
It has always been a deep black hole
Without meaning for the ones who were once put there
Trying to find an aim to all this
In presence of an alien reflection they progressed
Unconscious of a cosmic plan
Distant from uncountable centuries away
And the time had come...
There was just nothing and then it was there
Then darkness disappeared...
Far from the random shapes of nature
Beyond the bounded knowledge of men
Shining in a morning sun,
It was standing, beautiful
An artefact raised at the horizon of Earth
A sense and a purpose to the being
From beyond the infinite and further
A non understandable communication
Messenger of what was once,
Still is and will ever be
Past and future at the lowest point of the scale
A sign of the watchers, kindly looking to their herds
Waiting to be reached, a clue from above,
A mean of colonisation through the aeons
Through the aeons...
Self confident intelligent species,
Used like flock, raised to thoughts and civilization
For an unreachable and inexorable goal
Nothing was random, a beast known as mankind
Evolution through ageless times
A monolith as message
For the sake of what?
All is one and one is all
Maelstrom of connecting elements
Embracing absolute nothingness
Melting into useless stripes,
Moving to nowhere with purposeless destination
Through time and space
In brotherhood with an abstract presence
In a sphere of absurd vacuum
It has always been a deep black hole
Without meaning for the ones who were once put there
Trying to find an aim to all this
In presence of an alien reflection they progressed
Unconscious of a cosmic plan
Distant from uncountable centuries away
And the time had come...
There was just nothing and then it was there
Then darkness disappeared...
Far from the random shapes of nature
Beyond the bounded knowledge of men
Shining in a morning sun,
It was standing, beautiful
An artefact raised at the horizon of Earth
A sense and a purpose to the being
From beyond the infinite and further
A non understandable communication
Messenger of what was once,
Still is and will ever be
Past and future at the lowest point of the scale
A sign of the watchers, kindly looking to their herds
Waiting to be reached, a clue from above,
A mean of colonisation through the aeons
Through the aeons...
Self confident intelligent species,
Used like flock, raised to thoughts and civilization
For an unreachable and inexorable goal
Nothing was random, a beast known as mankind
Evolution through ageless times
A monolith as message
For the sake of what?
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