"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.
Crazy people know
The special place to go
When the pressure is on.
Neurons re-align
'Til the feeling is fine
Or the trouble is gone.
They're in the business
Of inventing saviours.
There's always trouble
So tell yourself again
That help is on the way
And safety abounds,
That safety abounds.
When you need some
Kind of guarantee
That you're protected
You start to trust
The things that
Deeper comfort brings
Before you've checked it.
You might be waiting
For a long time.
There's always trouble
So tell yourself again
That help is on the way
And safety abounds,
That safety abounds,
That safety abounds,
That safety abounds.
The special place to go
When the pressure is on.
Neurons re-align
'Til the feeling is fine
Or the trouble is gone.
They're in the business
Of inventing saviours.
There's always trouble
So tell yourself again
That help is on the way
And safety abounds,
That safety abounds.
When you need some
Kind of guarantee
That you're protected
You start to trust
The things that
Deeper comfort brings
Before you've checked it.
You might be waiting
For a long time.
There's always trouble
So tell yourself again
That help is on the way
And safety abounds,
That safety abounds,
That safety abounds,
That safety abounds.
Lyrics submitted by ScreamingInfidelity, edited by Gauntfreak
Invention Lyrics as written by David Shannon Bazan
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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