"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 saw you there
I stopped and stared
The curly girlie smiled
You really were
Too close to her
And people just went by
I saw your face
And her embrace
Your whisper in her ear
I know the score
'Cause I've heard it before
I read your lips with fear
Your words were clear (you said)
Lalalalalala
Let's say forever let's say it's true
Lalalalalala
Let's come together me and you
Lalalalalala
Your new cuckoo
I stopped and stared
The curly girlie smiled
You really were
Too close to her
And people just went by
I saw your face
And her embrace
Your whisper in her ear
I know the score
'Cause I've heard it before
I read your lips with fear
Your words were clear (you said)
Lalalalalala
Let's say forever let's say it's true
Lalalalalala
Let's come together me and you
Lalalalalala
Your new cuckoo
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This deals with the feeling everybody gets when they see their ex out with somebody else.
It also touches about the observation that the guy is feeding the new girl the same old lines. The singer that those lines were true and meant for her. Nope. The guy is just trying to get laid.
This song is Beatlesque in quality.