"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.
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
Enchanted By This Beat They Come
If You Dance To The Rhythm Of His Ecstatic Drum
There Is No Turning Back To Where You Once Belonged
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
The Fragile Stumble One By One
Controlled By A Beat Of A Mindbending Drug
They Are All Out Of Reach There's No Way They Can Stop
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
Who Pull The Trigger When They Dance On Their Own
When Ecstasy Rise They're All So Alone
The Water It Takes All The Kids To Swallow The Pill
Is Arming The Gun That's Aiming To Kill
I See The Piper Walk Away
But All The Kids Are Left To Stay
Soon They'll Wake From Their Dream, All Tied Down To A Bed
They're No Longer Humans Just Living Deads
But I See The Piper Walk Away
Who Pull The Trigger When They Dance On Their Own
When Ecstasy Rise They're All So Alone
The Water It Takes All The Kids To Swallow The Pill
Is Arming The Gun That's Aiming To Kill
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
Enchanted By This Beat They Come
If You Dance To The Rhythm Of His Ecstatic Drum
There Is No Turning Back To Where You Once Belonged
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
The Fragile Stumble One By One
Controlled By A Beat Of A Mindbending Drug
They Are All Out Of Reach There's No Way They Can Stop
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
Who Pull The Trigger When They Dance On Their Own
When Ecstasy Rise They're All So Alone
The Water It Takes All The Kids To Swallow The Pill
Is Arming The Gun That's Aiming To Kill
I See The Piper Walk Away
But All The Kids Are Left To Stay
Soon They'll Wake From Their Dream, All Tied Down To A Bed
They're No Longer Humans Just Living Deads
But I See The Piper Walk Away
Who Pull The Trigger When They Dance On Their Own
When Ecstasy Rise They're All So Alone
The Water It Takes All The Kids To Swallow The Pill
Is Arming The Gun That's Aiming To Kill
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
I Hear The Piper Bang His Drum
I Hear The Piper Play His Song
Lyrics submitted by gothic_hobbit
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