"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.
Got a sister named Desire
They dont let you like those little boys
By their house
On the back yard swing
I know of it because
I thought we told some little sweet stories
In the parking lot
They say that girl lost her sway
They say that girl lost her sway that day
Mm mm mm mm mm, mm mm
God I'd like to drag him for a long way because maybe I
Then I'd just cry a little tear near him
To that sleepy safe place
And I'm gonna take him by myself if I've got to go
Don't let you know, let you know where she goes to
With those, me as I interfere
That girl lost her sway
They say that girl lost her sway that day
Mm, mm, mm, mm
Teach me about them old worlds, big brother
And in an elevator
Where somebody can get out
With the sound
They say that girl lost her sway
Just watch it
Just watch it slip through my hands, boy
Watch it go
Oh, what you know, oh
I guess
I see
Just see
Because she still can sway
Na na na na na na
Na na na
They dont let you like those little boys
By their house
On the back yard swing
I know of it because
I thought we told some little sweet stories
In the parking lot
They say that girl lost her sway
They say that girl lost her sway that day
Mm mm mm mm mm, mm mm
God I'd like to drag him for a long way because maybe I
Then I'd just cry a little tear near him
To that sleepy safe place
And I'm gonna take him by myself if I've got to go
Don't let you know, let you know where she goes to
With those, me as I interfere
That girl lost her sway
They say that girl lost her sway that day
Mm, mm, mm, mm
Teach me about them old worlds, big brother
And in an elevator
Where somebody can get out
With the sound
They say that girl lost her sway
Just watch it
Just watch it slip through my hands, boy
Watch it go
Oh, what you know, oh
I guess
I see
Just see
Because she still can sway
Na na na na na na
Na na na
Lyrics submitted by krushzed, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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