"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.
You're an unwelcome awakening
In a fragile bag of chemicals
You're knee locked revelation
A waking dream
A hungry hungry wormhole
I can cherish and hold each abdominal toll
The joyless cold
Can you cherish and hold every original misconception of my soul?
Best check your hands for missing fingers
Once I've shaked them
Are you wearing a wire?
Have you been compromised?
Are you being followed?
Do they peep through your peephole?
Rip you up limb from limb?
You need only let me in
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
I've got oceans of insanity, I've got mountains of profanity
I've got spoonfuls of the irony all for you
Just let me in
Oh dear Anneliese how you frighten me!
White powerless
Cold and remote like the love of god
White powerless
I could cherish and hold every impossible heart crossed oath
I could cherish and love every original misconception of your soul
There'll be company men, there'll be sitcoms
There'll be bedpans, I'll be fodder for your friends
You need only let me in
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
I've got oceans of insanity, I've got mountains of profanity
I've got spoonfuls of the irony all for you
I'm a bastion of banality
In my fortress of futility near my mansion mediocrity all for you
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
Just let me in
In a fragile bag of chemicals
You're knee locked revelation
A waking dream
A hungry hungry wormhole
I can cherish and hold each abdominal toll
The joyless cold
Can you cherish and hold every original misconception of my soul?
Best check your hands for missing fingers
Once I've shaked them
Are you wearing a wire?
Have you been compromised?
Are you being followed?
Do they peep through your peephole?
Rip you up limb from limb?
You need only let me in
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
I've got oceans of insanity, I've got mountains of profanity
I've got spoonfuls of the irony all for you
Just let me in
Oh dear Anneliese how you frighten me!
White powerless
Cold and remote like the love of god
White powerless
I could cherish and hold every impossible heart crossed oath
I could cherish and love every original misconception of your soul
There'll be company men, there'll be sitcoms
There'll be bedpans, I'll be fodder for your friends
You need only let me in
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
I've got oceans of insanity, I've got mountains of profanity
I've got spoonfuls of the irony all for you
I'm a bastion of banality
In my fortress of futility near my mansion mediocrity all for you
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese! Anneliese!
Just let me in
Lyrics submitted by intertropicalconvergencezone
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