"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.
Vortical, teared apart, raging disillusions
Razing your unworthy existence
Rupturing, puncturing disassembling pressure
Immortal death, feeding the Black Spiral
Storms far and wide
An eerie corroding sound
And piercing light
Burns through the dark
Dissolving my
Blinded ephemeral confine
Absurd delight
Failing death, come and meet me now!
Unending decline
Purging darkness, says goodnight
Inhumed alive in this
Vortex of loss pulling me deeper inside
Boiling, sickening reality disorder
Unholy shadows, flaming darkness
Primeval, infinite shards of distant silence
Imprinting us all into the Black Spiral
Rage filled gaping hole
Pulls me down this unending slope
Eternal doom
Disembodied undertow
Along the way
Twisted fear and pain prevail
But who am I?
My memories fading away
Vortical, teared apart, raging disillusions
Razing your unworthy existence
Rupturing, puncturing disassembling pressure
Immortal death, feeding the Black Spiral
Veil on my eyes
Blinded by immortal demise
A raving smile
An enfolding night
Closing up on me
Full of agony
Primeval fear’s
Melting me
Fierce delusions fade away
Finally I can see
I don’t belong
In here
Razing your unworthy existence
Rupturing, puncturing disassembling pressure
Immortal death, feeding the Black Spiral
Storms far and wide
An eerie corroding sound
And piercing light
Burns through the dark
Dissolving my
Blinded ephemeral confine
Absurd delight
Failing death, come and meet me now!
Unending decline
Purging darkness, says goodnight
Inhumed alive in this
Vortex of loss pulling me deeper inside
Boiling, sickening reality disorder
Unholy shadows, flaming darkness
Primeval, infinite shards of distant silence
Imprinting us all into the Black Spiral
Rage filled gaping hole
Pulls me down this unending slope
Eternal doom
Disembodied undertow
Along the way
Twisted fear and pain prevail
But who am I?
My memories fading away
Vortical, teared apart, raging disillusions
Razing your unworthy existence
Rupturing, puncturing disassembling pressure
Immortal death, feeding the Black Spiral
Veil on my eyes
Blinded by immortal demise
A raving smile
An enfolding night
Closing up on me
Full of agony
Primeval fear’s
Melting me
Fierce delusions fade away
Finally I can see
I don’t belong
In here
Lyrics submitted by mjanos10
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