"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.
Pull ourselves back
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Hey kindness is inscribed
In our misused minds
But we only find us behind
We always walk our lives
In a state contrived
That kindness is tried
How we lie
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Friends kindness is our right
Obligate our right
Live within our right
Not our fright
Life does not make it right
Does not change our right
To push on what’s right
And be blind
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
Pull ourselves back
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
Pull ourselves back
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Hey kindness is inscribed
In our misused minds
But we only find us behind
We always walk our lives
In a state contrived
That kindness is tried
How we lie
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Friends kindness is our right
Obligate our right
Live within our right
Not our fright
Life does not make it right
Does not change our right
To push on what’s right
And be blind
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
Pull ourselves back
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
We can’t move if we can’t
Pull ourselves back
Hey friends we’re failing
Think why we’re failing
Now friends start moving
Think why
Lyrics submitted by EmbryoSystem
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