"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've played the part of a senseless victim
Long enough to bear the burden of hate
Now nothing but a martyr
A plague that leaves you frail and writhing
Oh God where is my trust now,
I'd take it back if I had the chance
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
Full circle now
Invested lavishly into an empty sentiment
You crept away so foolishly
Into the hands of the depraved
Hands that beat your pride away
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
So release me, or release all doubt
I've wasted all of my time on you till now
set your sights on annihilation
Oh God where is my trust now,
I'd take it back if I had the chance
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
So release me, or release all doubt
I've wasted all of my time on you till now
Oh God where is my trust now,
(You've played the part of (a) martyr long enough to lose yourself)
I'd take it back if I had the chance
(It comes full circle now)
(This will be the wrath)
Long enough to bear the burden of hate
Now nothing but a martyr
A plague that leaves you frail and writhing
Oh God where is my trust now,
I'd take it back if I had the chance
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
Full circle now
Invested lavishly into an empty sentiment
You crept away so foolishly
Into the hands of the depraved
Hands that beat your pride away
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
So release me, or release all doubt
I've wasted all of my time on you till now
set your sights on annihilation
Oh God where is my trust now,
I'd take it back if I had the chance
Set your sights on annihilation
Screaming this will be the wrath that breaks you down
It all comes full circle now
So release me, or release all doubt
I've wasted all of my time on you till now
Oh God where is my trust now,
(You've played the part of (a) martyr long enough to lose yourself)
I'd take it back if I had the chance
(It comes full circle now)
(This will be the wrath)
Lyrics submitted by furyroad97
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@Decapitronboy4 They weren't doing that at the time of this song's release