"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.
running short on imagination
still we waste it all on words
spoken without the benefit of our minds
the candle burns the edges fray
our best intentions waste away
and everybody loves the things we've done
and on and on and on
life appears weightless for everyone but me
this world grows heavier everyday
deterioration growing old before my time
nobody cares nevermind
we all prey on a vain condition
and the hopelessness of it all
these days there's nothing we can trust
the dreams we made we've seen them fade
trampled by our sad parade
yet we're so pleased with what we've done and on and on and i'm done
life appears weightless for everyone but me
this world grows heavier everyday
deterioration growing old before my time
nobody cares anyway
the mind breaks down when it dies
our machine's doubled in size
to orchestrate the grand collapse
i see us all trapped in its path
there was a time we were unbound
as if we'd never hit the ground
but just like rain we can't keep from falling
still we waste it all on words
spoken without the benefit of our minds
the candle burns the edges fray
our best intentions waste away
and everybody loves the things we've done
and on and on and on
life appears weightless for everyone but me
this world grows heavier everyday
deterioration growing old before my time
nobody cares nevermind
we all prey on a vain condition
and the hopelessness of it all
these days there's nothing we can trust
the dreams we made we've seen them fade
trampled by our sad parade
yet we're so pleased with what we've done and on and on and i'm done
life appears weightless for everyone but me
this world grows heavier everyday
deterioration growing old before my time
nobody cares anyway
the mind breaks down when it dies
our machine's doubled in size
to orchestrate the grand collapse
i see us all trapped in its path
there was a time we were unbound
as if we'd never hit the ground
but just like rain we can't keep from falling
Lyrics submitted by noisetodieby
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