"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.
Oh, yeah
Mmm
Yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh
Oh yeah
I was alone just because
I wasn't like them
They made me excluded, so cruel, and
Then there was you
You stood by me, ignored their words
You became my best friend so true, oh yeah
You believed in me
When no one else did
You gave me the strength to
Move on, my friend
You will always be
The one I remember
To give my thanks to
For my success
They just did not understand
What I was going through
My situation, they didn't care, no
You tried to take a stand for me
When I just could not
Take it any longer
You believed in me
When no one else did
You gave me the strength to
Move on, my friend
You will always be
The one I remember
To give my thanks to
For my success
I, oh, as I look back
I can see how childish they were
And you, oh, you showed me that
We were so much more than they were
I hope they can see their mistakes now
And not do it to another
But if they don't, I hope that person
Finds someone like you
Oh
You believed in me
When no one else did
Yeah, oh, no, oh, yeah, oh
You will always be
The one I remember
Will always be the one I remember, oh, no
For my success
For my, for my success, oh
You believed in me
When no one else did, oh, yeah
Oh, the strength to move on, yeah
The one I remember, oh
With all my heart, yeah
Mmm
Yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh
Oh yeah
I was alone just because
I wasn't like them
They made me excluded, so cruel, and
Then there was you
You stood by me, ignored their words
You became my best friend so true, oh yeah
You believed in me
When no one else did
You gave me the strength to
Move on, my friend
You will always be
The one I remember
To give my thanks to
For my success
They just did not understand
What I was going through
My situation, they didn't care, no
You tried to take a stand for me
When I just could not
Take it any longer
You believed in me
When no one else did
You gave me the strength to
Move on, my friend
You will always be
The one I remember
To give my thanks to
For my success
I, oh, as I look back
I can see how childish they were
And you, oh, you showed me that
We were so much more than they were
I hope they can see their mistakes now
And not do it to another
But if they don't, I hope that person
Finds someone like you
Oh
You believed in me
When no one else did
Yeah, oh, no, oh, yeah, oh
You will always be
The one I remember
Will always be the one I remember, oh, no
For my success
For my, for my success, oh
You believed in me
When no one else did, oh, yeah
Oh, the strength to move on, yeah
The one I remember, oh
With all my heart, yeah
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This song is so apt to dedicate to the person who believed in YOU & your ABILITIES when no one else did:] This song is for savior of one's life :]
FTC :O on such a beautiful song :O
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