"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.
Embellish mine wayward soul
Blast it with your vicious beauty
I know I've been perverted like a man
Who has not shagged in years
Mama loves me yes she does
But she's a thief
She done her best she didn't know
They got her too
Now I know you're coming home to me
Freechild baby be
Lucid and in harmony
A wildflower pretty
And speaking in tongues she casts her spell
Vodka still wet on her lips
I'm quantum flung into a place
I've always needed to be
An angel of the darkest night
Has sung to me
And though my heart is breaking
My wounds cease to bleed
Yeah we ride the golden skyway
Now spread those wings
Into the heart of a mad and impassioned sun run
Through all the days and all the years
Right there you'll be
In shining braided glory you were made made for me
I know you're coming home to me
Blast it with your vicious beauty
I know I've been perverted like a man
Who has not shagged in years
Mama loves me yes she does
But she's a thief
She done her best she didn't know
They got her too
Now I know you're coming home to me
Freechild baby be
Lucid and in harmony
A wildflower pretty
And speaking in tongues she casts her spell
Vodka still wet on her lips
I'm quantum flung into a place
I've always needed to be
An angel of the darkest night
Has sung to me
And though my heart is breaking
My wounds cease to bleed
Yeah we ride the golden skyway
Now spread those wings
Into the heart of a mad and impassioned sun run
Through all the days and all the years
Right there you'll be
In shining braided glory you were made made for me
I know you're coming home to me
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