"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.
We steal the molecules from the dead
We liberate inanimate objects
Is this a path of will up ahead?
Or are we just destined to get what we get?
Drawn to your face like never before
Even the mistakes aren't really mistakes at all
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
We steal the molecules from the dead
We liberate inanimate objects
Is this a sign of will in a head?
Or are we predestined to get what we get?
Drawn to your face like never before
Even the mistakes aren't really mistakes at all
I wanna confess that you own me (that you own me)
And we don't rest if we're lonely (if we're lonely)
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
We've been dressed as humans
We've been kings and homeless
Still, we're just fragments of a great collide
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
Maybe now's the time to be alive
We liberate inanimate objects
Is this a path of will up ahead?
Or are we just destined to get what we get?
Drawn to your face like never before
Even the mistakes aren't really mistakes at all
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
We steal the molecules from the dead
We liberate inanimate objects
Is this a sign of will in a head?
Or are we predestined to get what we get?
Drawn to your face like never before
Even the mistakes aren't really mistakes at all
I wanna confess that you own me (that you own me)
And we don't rest if we're lonely (if we're lonely)
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
We've been dressed as humans
We've been kings and homeless
Still, we're just fragments of a great collide
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
I wanna confess that you own me
And we don't rest if we're lonely
There's innocence in the moment
Maybe now's the time to be alive
Maybe now's the time to be alive
Lyrics submitted by Emzee4life
Molecules Lyrics as written by Michael Jeffery Keith Jeffery
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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