"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.
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
I stop and I stare too much
Afraid that I care too much
And I hardly dare to touch
For fear that the spell may be broken
When I need a drug in me
And it brings out the thug in me
Feel something tugging me
Then I want the real thing, not tokens
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
And things you'd expect to be
Having effect on me
Pass undetectedly
But everyone knows what has got me
Takes me completely
Touches so sweetly
Reaches so deeply
I know that nothing can stop me
Sweetest perfection
An offer was made
An assorted collection
But I wouldn't trade
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest infection
(Takes me completely) of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly) sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply) of any kind
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest perfection
(Takes me completely) to call my own
(Touches so sweetly) the sweetest correction
(Reaches so deeply) couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest infection
(Takes me completely) of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly) sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply) of any kind
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
I stop and I stare too much
Afraid that I care too much
And I hardly dare to touch
For fear that the spell may be broken
When I need a drug in me
And it brings out the thug in me
Feel something tugging me
Then I want the real thing, not tokens
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
And things you'd expect to be
Having effect on me
Pass undetectedly
But everyone knows what has got me
Takes me completely
Touches so sweetly
Reaches so deeply
I know that nothing can stop me
Sweetest perfection
An offer was made
An assorted collection
But I wouldn't trade
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest infection
(Takes me completely) of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly) sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply) of any kind
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest perfection
(Takes me completely) to call my own
(Touches so sweetly) the sweetest correction
(Reaches so deeply) couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me) the sweetest infection
(Takes me completely) of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly) sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply) of any kind
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You could have truer words on this song depechvixxen. I agree with you completely but, I also think that ALL songs have the meaning that you interperet.