"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 hear that I don't deserve this
Too late it's mine anyway
You run back broken and worthless
Too late with nothing to say
I lie on a new position
I hear that it's something good
Gonna kill me like a killer should
No secrets nothing that I said
Too long you're wasting yourself
No reason cut an empty head
I wonder going through hell
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
You with you're starting to kill me
Result you follow me out
Two more than any that you've seen
Too late I'm starting to shout
I lie on a new position
I hear that it's something good
Gonna kill me like a killer should
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
Too late it's mine anyway
You run back broken and worthless
Too late with nothing to say
I lie on a new position
I hear that it's something good
Gonna kill me like a killer should
No secrets nothing that I said
Too long you're wasting yourself
No reason cut an empty head
I wonder going through hell
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
You with you're starting to kill me
Result you follow me out
Two more than any that you've seen
Too late I'm starting to shout
I lie on a new position
I hear that it's something good
Gonna kill me like a killer should
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
I'm a liar, isn't easy
Try to find it to believe it
I can see myself in the right way
I can't stand it, it won't go away
Lyrics submitted by 2HY
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