"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.
[Verse 1]
Darkness, the end of days
Planets, kinetic haze
Arrive, the last dimension
Reject the apprehension
No matter, we don't look back
The storm, electric black
This war is formed in vengeance
The story has been predicted
[Chorus]
We are the dark and the light
We have the power of time
We are the serpents intertwined
The galaxy will unite!
[Verse 2]
Perfect liars promising us
Can't stop the beast, got no other choice
Unforgiving soulless nature
Not gonna tame us, gonna beat him
Not gonna stop reaping, the price is death
We make the pact, we took our first breath
Fearless, this is our quest that leads us on
Man the star-gates!
Go!
[Chorus]
We are the dark and the light
We have the power of time
We are the serpents intertwined
The galaxy will unite!
[Bridge]
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, it's all starting, now
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, it's all starting, now!
[Outro]
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now
Darkness, the end of days
Planets, kinetic haze
Arrive, the last dimension
Reject the apprehension
No matter, we don't look back
The storm, electric black
This war is formed in vengeance
The story has been predicted
[Chorus]
We are the dark and the light
We have the power of time
We are the serpents intertwined
The galaxy will unite!
[Verse 2]
Perfect liars promising us
Can't stop the beast, got no other choice
Unforgiving soulless nature
Not gonna tame us, gonna beat him
Not gonna stop reaping, the price is death
We make the pact, we took our first breath
Fearless, this is our quest that leads us on
Man the star-gates!
Go!
[Chorus]
We are the dark and the light
We have the power of time
We are the serpents intertwined
The galaxy will unite!
[Bridge]
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, it's all starting, now
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, this is the beginning
This is the beginning, it's all starting, now!
[Outro]
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now!
It's all starting, now
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
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