"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.
In your room there are airs from the words that you speak
And the breath of a rose for the blush of your cheek
We're adrift, we're afloat, on snowy clouds of satin
That carry us to heaven, safe in each other's arms
In your room there is, there is, there is, there is
In your room there is, there is infinity
In your room there is love, born in you, torn from me
We are one silhouette and my senses reveal
Fingers drawn from the touch of a softness I feel
And my head's in a spin from love's intoxication
For this is our creation, the miracle of love
In your room there is, there is, there is, there is
In your room there is, there is infinity
In your room there is love, born in you, torn from me
There is infinity
In your room, there is love
Born in you, torn from me
And the breath of a rose for the blush of your cheek
We're adrift, we're afloat, on snowy clouds of satin
That carry us to heaven, safe in each other's arms
In your room there is, there is, there is, there is
In your room there is, there is infinity
In your room there is love, born in you, torn from me
We are one silhouette and my senses reveal
Fingers drawn from the touch of a softness I feel
And my head's in a spin from love's intoxication
For this is our creation, the miracle of love
In your room there is, there is, there is, there is
In your room there is, there is infinity
In your room there is love, born in you, torn from me
There is infinity
In your room, there is love
Born in you, torn from me
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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