"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.
White clouds cover
The whole of the earth
Concorde flies
Through the skies to the States
Lifetimes in memory, flesh being born
But this is the age of invisible dawn
And the man from the government
Says show me a sign
The mood of the moment
Says have a good time
Through stench and starvation,
Night never falls
There's flies on the skeletons,
Shapes on the wall
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
And the masters of flattery
Colour the trees
they walk on the oceans,
Put the town under siege
The king of humanity sleeps in despair
Walking out in the morning
With hands in the air
There's zealots in anger,
Divine extremes
Emotional half-lives,
Disposable dreams
Rumours of cease-fire
Inherit the streets
This is the war
Of the pure and the meek
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
These days are overgrown in truth
Under the sun that's nothing new
But flowers still open,
Flowers still close
Re-arranged molecules,
Miracle cures
And I can still love you,
Call you my own
Till the blooms turn to doubt,
Till the angels come home
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
The whole of the earth
Concorde flies
Through the skies to the States
Lifetimes in memory, flesh being born
But this is the age of invisible dawn
And the man from the government
Says show me a sign
The mood of the moment
Says have a good time
Through stench and starvation,
Night never falls
There's flies on the skeletons,
Shapes on the wall
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
And the masters of flattery
Colour the trees
they walk on the oceans,
Put the town under siege
The king of humanity sleeps in despair
Walking out in the morning
With hands in the air
There's zealots in anger,
Divine extremes
Emotional half-lives,
Disposable dreams
Rumours of cease-fire
Inherit the streets
This is the war
Of the pure and the meek
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
These days are overgrown in truth
Under the sun that's nothing new
But flowers still open,
Flowers still close
Re-arranged molecules,
Miracle cures
And I can still love you,
Call you my own
Till the blooms turn to doubt,
Till the angels come home
As I draw my latest breath
Amazing things are done on earth
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Amazing Things Lyrics as written by Rory Macdonald Calum Macdonald
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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