"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.
Turn around, open your eyes
Can't move on, the fear is tying you down
Open your eyes, it's all right
I'm hellhound in this life
Keep fighting this endless war
It's always been like this, I don't know why
Enslave ment of your mind
Your fear it ties me down
Going down, I won't bow, no
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
These days are only now
Breathing in the coldest lies
I think that's only what you have in mind
Holding on to the best of you
I hit the pavement
Going down, I won't bow, down
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
I'm impatient, but it's colors that I need
Too many shades of grey, I cannot breathe
The dreams I have ain't tainted, I need you to believe
The only way to make them real
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
Turn around, open your eyes
Can't move on, the fear is tying you down
Open your eyes, it's all right
Can't move on, the fear is tying you down
Open your eyes, it's all right
I'm hellhound in this life
Keep fighting this endless war
It's always been like this, I don't know why
Enslave ment of your mind
Your fear it ties me down
Going down, I won't bow, no
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
These days are only now
Breathing in the coldest lies
I think that's only what you have in mind
Holding on to the best of you
I hit the pavement
Going down, I won't bow, down
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
I'm impatient, but it's colors that I need
Too many shades of grey, I cannot breathe
The dreams I have ain't tainted, I need you to believe
The only way to make them real
Screaming at the walls of fire
They're closing in on me
I hunger for the vertigo, the silver moonlight
It's where I wanna be
Screaming at the walls of fire
But I'm still running free
In the silver moonlight I can breathe
Turn around, open your eyes
Can't move on, the fear is tying you down
Open your eyes, it's all right
Lyrics submitted by thedictator, edited by painkiller300
Silver Moonlight Lyrics as written by Robert Westerholt Martinus J. E. Martijn Spierenburg
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, SPIERENBURG MUSIC PUBLISHING
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This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Great version of a great song,
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Sounds like 50 shades of grey lol!