"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.
You are the sun, I am the flame
You are the blood, I am the same
We are the love that rises again
They are the snake that bites on your veins
We are not chained to the wheel
You are the tear, I have no fear
You are so strange, I feel the same
Sorceress mind, we ride again
We are not chained to the wheel, to the wheel
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
You are alive and high in my dreams
You are the stars that mystify me
And you are the wolf that frightens the thief
And you are the voice that they disbelieve
We are not chained to the wheel
And you are the spark that sets us all free
We are not chained to the wheel, to the wheel
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
Whoa, baby
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
Still you rise
Still you rise
You are the blood, I am the same
We are the love that rises again
They are the snake that bites on your veins
We are not chained to the wheel
You are the tear, I have no fear
You are so strange, I feel the same
Sorceress mind, we ride again
We are not chained to the wheel, to the wheel
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
You are alive and high in my dreams
You are the stars that mystify me
And you are the wolf that frightens the thief
And you are the voice that they disbelieve
We are not chained to the wheel
And you are the spark that sets us all free
We are not chained to the wheel, to the wheel
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
Whoa, baby
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
It's the way that you feel
It's the truth in your eye
'Cause you're up against the world and still you rise
And still you rise
Still you rise
Still you rise
Lyrics submitted by Kappa4Life20
Rise Lyrics as written by Ian Robert Astbury William Henry Duffy
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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