"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.
She falls apart
By herself
No one there to talk or understand
Feels the same
Dries her eyes
Finds herself, opens a door and sighs
People see right through you
Everyone who knows you well
Falls apart
Might as well
Day is long and nothin' is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but your goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but you're leavin' today
You walk alone
By yourself
There's the sound, nothin' is changin'
They've gone away
Left you there
Emptiness in nothin' you can't share
All those words that hurt you
More than you would let it show
Comes apart
By yourself
Always well but nothing is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold on to you but you're goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but your leavin' today
Sometimes I feel aroused so I cannot be down
All the time I've been on my owm
Any sound of being here
Time to wastearound a friend
I know where to runaway.
No where to run away yeah!
She falls aprt, no one there
Hold her hand and seems to disappear
Falls apart
Might as well
Day is long and nothin' is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold on to you but your goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but you're leavin' today
By herself
No one there to talk or understand
Feels the same
Dries her eyes
Finds herself, opens a door and sighs
People see right through you
Everyone who knows you well
Falls apart
Might as well
Day is long and nothin' is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but your goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but you're leavin' today
You walk alone
By yourself
There's the sound, nothin' is changin'
They've gone away
Left you there
Emptiness in nothin' you can't share
All those words that hurt you
More than you would let it show
Comes apart
By yourself
Always well but nothing is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold on to you but you're goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but your leavin' today
Sometimes I feel aroused so I cannot be down
All the time I've been on my owm
Any sound of being here
Time to wastearound a friend
I know where to runaway.
No where to run away yeah!
She falls aprt, no one there
Hold her hand and seems to disappear
Falls apart
Might as well
Day is long and nothin' is wasted
Run away, run away
Hold on to you but your goin' away
Run away, run away
Hold you tomorrow but you're leavin' today
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I think this song is from a guys point of view on a depressed girls life. "She falls apart by herself" someone who fakes a smile by when they say "no one there" and i think itys about how people are realizing it and that she can't it anymore