"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 see you here
Locked outside
I want you in
Come inside
I've been lost
A scattered ghost
No kind being
A shadow host
You my guest
I haunt you now
You the best
Still here somehow
Love and light and sin again
Our limitations
Breathe us in
And breathe us out
Swallowed whole
No salvation
Found below
In the head
Or in the soul
Wandering always
Takes its toll
London Paris New York you
All the cities
We been too
And back and forth
And here and there
All to say
I really care
And see your moon
And see your glow
The way you walk
And what you show
And what you don't
And what you hide
Sometimes you're gone
And still inside
And still inside
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Make believers
In the sky
In the earth
Pass us by
Mother father
Slave and king
All of us
Should finally sing
Freedom freedom
All around
Freedom freedom
Falling down
Freedom freedom
Under love
Freedom freedom
Up above
Freedom freedom
Me and you
Freedom freedom
Red and blue
White and black
Yellow grey
Take it all
To give away
Freedom in
Freedom out
In a whisper
Freedom shout
Freedom head
Freedom soul
Bury freedom
In a hole
Watch it grow
Manifest
Everyday
You arrest
Freedom locked
In a cage
Swallowed keys
The turning page
In the eyes
The leper sage
In the broom
Sweeping rage
Freedom need
Freedom cure
Give us dreams
Make us pure
Make us you
In the sea
Give us wealth
Make us free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
Locked outside
I want you in
Come inside
I've been lost
A scattered ghost
No kind being
A shadow host
You my guest
I haunt you now
You the best
Still here somehow
Love and light and sin again
Our limitations
Breathe us in
And breathe us out
Swallowed whole
No salvation
Found below
In the head
Or in the soul
Wandering always
Takes its toll
London Paris New York you
All the cities
We been too
And back and forth
And here and there
All to say
I really care
And see your moon
And see your glow
The way you walk
And what you show
And what you don't
And what you hide
Sometimes you're gone
And still inside
And still inside
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Make believers
In the sky
In the earth
Pass us by
Mother father
Slave and king
All of us
Should finally sing
Freedom freedom
All around
Freedom freedom
Falling down
Freedom freedom
Under love
Freedom freedom
Up above
Freedom freedom
Me and you
Freedom freedom
Red and blue
White and black
Yellow grey
Take it all
To give away
Freedom in
Freedom out
In a whisper
Freedom shout
Freedom head
Freedom soul
Bury freedom
In a hole
Watch it grow
Manifest
Everyday
You arrest
Freedom locked
In a cage
Swallowed keys
The turning page
In the eyes
The leper sage
In the broom
Sweeping rage
Freedom need
Freedom cure
Give us dreams
Make us pure
Make us you
In the sea
Give us wealth
Make us free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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