"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.
Anderson/Squire/Howe/White/Sherwood/Khoroshev
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls' devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realized their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin
Only in the recent past
Seekers fought to realize
Skyward shone like beacons
A question of origin
Ten thousand millions flee
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace
As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Speak so fast to the prophets of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth
Ancient ones, they watch and listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life
I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into the secret
Of the home of your heart
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it
I have seen the dream
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one
It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life
Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls' devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realized their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin
Only in the recent past
Seekers fought to realize
Skyward shone like beacons
A question of origin
Ten thousand millions flee
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace
As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world
Nothing can take us far enough emotion
Far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in
Nothing can bridge our souls devotion
Fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin
Speak so fast to the prophets of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth
Ancient ones, they watch and listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life
I have seen the passion
That's in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into the secret
Of the home of your heart
Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it
I have seen the dream
That's in your heart
That's in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one
It's what keeps us so alive
It's what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realize
Our home is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life
Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart
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"Nothing can bridge our souls Devotion... fast enough together As the power proves you right Right enough to let you begin"
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I go through something in my life, it happens, then I listen to a Yes song driven by intuition and then I understand.
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