"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.
Another miserable day I didn't
Sleep once again please tell me
Why am I this way lately this is
How it's been I've got so much
On my mind I'm waiting for the
Day to find the answers to my
Troubles am I safe or am I in...
[Chorus]
Shut the door on your way out
Leave me empty let me shout
Let me walk down my own road
Hide from the input run from doubt
Dissolving clouds I'll think about
This one I know I can decode
And I don't know what to belive
Reasons I know I can't say you
Say them anyway and I don't
Know what to belive
(And now you're telling me,
What you want me to be
And I don't want to be like you)
I fight with myself evryday I'm
Miserable when will it end I
Search to find something to say
I need some help I need a friend
I feel I'm constantly behind I feel
Left out I feel so blind but I want
To be someone
[Chorus]
I've always tried to do my best
Although it seems impossible
It's not a test I've always tried
To be like you and throw my
Insecurities away
[Chorus]
The suns not out it'll be okay
Who are you anyway
The suns not out and it'll be okay
I'll be myself today
Sleep once again please tell me
Why am I this way lately this is
How it's been I've got so much
On my mind I'm waiting for the
Day to find the answers to my
Troubles am I safe or am I in...
[Chorus]
Shut the door on your way out
Leave me empty let me shout
Let me walk down my own road
Hide from the input run from doubt
Dissolving clouds I'll think about
This one I know I can decode
And I don't know what to belive
Reasons I know I can't say you
Say them anyway and I don't
Know what to belive
(And now you're telling me,
What you want me to be
And I don't want to be like you)
I fight with myself evryday I'm
Miserable when will it end I
Search to find something to say
I need some help I need a friend
I feel I'm constantly behind I feel
Left out I feel so blind but I want
To be someone
[Chorus]
I've always tried to do my best
Although it seems impossible
It's not a test I've always tried
To be like you and throw my
Insecurities away
[Chorus]
The suns not out it'll be okay
Who are you anyway
The suns not out and it'll be okay
I'll be myself today
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