"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'm not really sure what insanity is to tell you the truth
So sometimes I feel I'm going in a path
It's going against the river, going against the wave
Going against what other people are doing
But I don't necessarily call that insanity, I really don't call that insanity
Sometimes when I look at the mass of people or turn on the TV
I just shake my head and say, this is insanity, this is insanity, normality is insanity
I can't escape it, it's everywhere
Wherever I look it's there, so I'm not quite clear on what the word means anymore
Of course, I'm afraid of dying, everybody is
Everything on the planet's afraid of dying
Whether it's a dog, whether it's a mosquito, whether it's a turtle, whether it's a cat
Everything's programmed to survive
Everything doesn't want to, nothing wants to die, everything's struggling to live
I guess humans, but I wouldn't necessarily say this for certain
Maybe most aware of the fact that they're going to die
And I guess that makes the whole journey a lot more difficult
More complex, and more challenging than perhaps what goes through an animals mind
But I wouldn't say that for certain
Well you know I'm certain, certain people who came into contact with me during my life
Will remember me, there is no doubt about it
And as time goes on less and less people might remember me
Unless what I've what achieved in my art has some sort of eternal meaning to it
It's always impossible to judge whether this will happen or not happen
It's, it's, whether it's just chance I guess, maybe skill, maybe chance
Whatever it is that you have, uh
A following that goes beyond your own life
But ultimately I guess, they say everything will disappear
And I guess the planet might disappear when the sun goes out
So sometimes I feel I'm going in a path
It's going against the river, going against the wave
Going against what other people are doing
But I don't necessarily call that insanity, I really don't call that insanity
Sometimes when I look at the mass of people or turn on the TV
I just shake my head and say, this is insanity, this is insanity, normality is insanity
I can't escape it, it's everywhere
Wherever I look it's there, so I'm not quite clear on what the word means anymore
Of course, I'm afraid of dying, everybody is
Everything on the planet's afraid of dying
Whether it's a dog, whether it's a mosquito, whether it's a turtle, whether it's a cat
Everything's programmed to survive
Everything doesn't want to, nothing wants to die, everything's struggling to live
I guess humans, but I wouldn't necessarily say this for certain
Maybe most aware of the fact that they're going to die
And I guess that makes the whole journey a lot more difficult
More complex, and more challenging than perhaps what goes through an animals mind
But I wouldn't say that for certain
Well you know I'm certain, certain people who came into contact with me during my life
Will remember me, there is no doubt about it
And as time goes on less and less people might remember me
Unless what I've what achieved in my art has some sort of eternal meaning to it
It's always impossible to judge whether this will happen or not happen
It's, it's, whether it's just chance I guess, maybe skill, maybe chance
Whatever it is that you have, uh
A following that goes beyond your own life
But ultimately I guess, they say everything will disappear
And I guess the planet might disappear when the sun goes out
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
WHEN THE SUN GOES OUT Lyrics as written by Anri Du Toit Watkin Jones
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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