"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.
A permanent disguise hid within the eyes
Paint a vivid picture of our lives
We look into the future and kneel on one knee
We plea for absolution and judgment to be
It's not the cross you bear, of some you should beware
And I can see that you don't really care
We’ve turned up every stone and we've swam through every sea
We’ve shattered all our hopes and what they mean
With a loaded gun
You'll wonder what you've done
It’s a war never won, it's a war never won
Look outside yourself, you're not an empty shell
You’ll find that you're not like anyone else
And the portrait turns to dust and your faith begins to rust
Everything you've sought has been of lust
I'm not your savior, I'm not your saint
I'm just the liar that fills your heart with hate
Do you hide in the darkness, do you live for the rain
Wash away our sins and stop the endless pain
Do we pray to the heavens do we pray to the gods
There’s no resolution to a war never won
War never won
Paint a vivid picture of our lives
We look into the future and kneel on one knee
We plea for absolution and judgment to be
It's not the cross you bear, of some you should beware
And I can see that you don't really care
We’ve turned up every stone and we've swam through every sea
We’ve shattered all our hopes and what they mean
With a loaded gun
You'll wonder what you've done
It’s a war never won, it's a war never won
Look outside yourself, you're not an empty shell
You’ll find that you're not like anyone else
And the portrait turns to dust and your faith begins to rust
Everything you've sought has been of lust
I'm not your savior, I'm not your saint
I'm just the liar that fills your heart with hate
Do you hide in the darkness, do you live for the rain
Wash away our sins and stop the endless pain
Do we pray to the heavens do we pray to the gods
There’s no resolution to a war never won
War never won
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
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