"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'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm Closer to where I Started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing left to find
There is nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
I'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer where I Started
I'm Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment here with you
Starving for truth
I'm Closer to where I Started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing left to find
There is nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
I'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer where I Started
I'm Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment here with you
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by fuelingfires
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