"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.
I'm looking for a miracle man that tells me no lies
I'm looking for a miracle man who's not in disguise
I don't know where he'll come from and I don't know where he's been
But he's not our Jimmy sinner because he's so obscene
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted
Today i saw a miracle man, on TV cryin'
Such a hypocritical man, born again, dying
He don't know where he's goin' but we know where he's been
It was out little Jimmy sinner
Our eyes are on the screen
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle
man got busted, miracle man
A devil with a crucifix
Brimstone and fire
He needs another carnal fix
To take him higher and higher
Now Jimmy, he got busted with his pants down
Repent ye wretched sinners, self righteous clown
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle
man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle man got
busted, miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted
I'm looking for a miracle man who's not in disguise
I don't know where he'll come from and I don't know where he's been
But he's not our Jimmy sinner because he's so obscene
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted
Today i saw a miracle man, on TV cryin'
Such a hypocritical man, born again, dying
He don't know where he's goin' but we know where he's been
It was out little Jimmy sinner
Our eyes are on the screen
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle
man got busted, miracle man
A devil with a crucifix
Brimstone and fire
He needs another carnal fix
To take him higher and higher
Now Jimmy, he got busted with his pants down
Repent ye wretched sinners, self righteous clown
Miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle
man got busted, miracle man got busted, miracle man got
busted, miracle man got busted, miracle man got busted
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