"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.
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Now that God is an athiest
Finally, well, I can sleep at night
In a hotel room
With holes in the curtains
I shivered as she slid up my leg
Well, she could convince me
A hundred Hail Marys
She whispered, "Dear boy, your god is dead"
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I can't sleep
In this dead, cold bed
In a hotel room
The color of their skin
Holes in the drapes spray beams of light
Strangling lovers
Were we kidding each other?
Gasping for breaths in poisonous lies
In a hotel room
Was my second communion
Is that your blood cleansing my veins?
If three little angels
Would peek in these curtains
They'd whisper, "Dear boy, your mouth was too warm"
Was too warm
Was too warm
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Now that God is an athiest
Finally, well, I can sleep at night
In a hotel room
With holes in the curtains
I shivered as she slid up my leg
Well, she could convince me
A hundred Hail Marys
She whispered, "Dear boy, your god is dead"
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I'll never go back there
Don't make me go back there
I can't sleep
In this dead, cold bed
In a hotel room
The color of their skin
Holes in the drapes spray beams of light
Strangling lovers
Were we kidding each other?
Gasping for breaths in poisonous lies
In a hotel room
Was my second communion
Is that your blood cleansing my veins?
If three little angels
Would peek in these curtains
They'd whisper, "Dear boy, your mouth was too warm"
Was too warm
Was too warm
Lyrics submitted by tsucol
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I know the rest but i'm not telling because that lyric up there should make you understand how much of a good song this man what am i doing, maybe one day i'll put up the whole thing, maybe one day i'll be the queen of france, and maybe one day i'll squish my hand in the door of my car, and maybe one day i'll, use my last 20 dollars to by gameboy advanced, FUCK I WASTED 20 DOLLARS. So you see i'm never going to put up ther est of the lyrics.