"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.
Friday afternoon and I get home early
I call you up cause I got to see my girly
I thought about you, all day
And I just want to celebrate in a real special way
So fix your hair up just right
Put your best dress on
I got a two for one coupon
Being with you is like being in paradise
Especially when I don’t pay full price
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
I got a two for one coupon
And I just got to say
It expires today
The way your looking at me is giving me chills
Man, I hope this place has free refills
And the flowers that I got you that you hold so dear
Make me glad I passed the cemetery on the way here
And I don’t want to ruin this magical moment that were sharing
But on the way home can we stop at the store and return the suit that I’m wearing
And after that we’ll walk under the moonlight and hold hands
While we search for returnable cans
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
I got a two for one coupon
And I just got to say
It expires today
Baby, baby, your heaven sent
Let me move in with you cause right now I live in a tent
And if things don’t work out I won’t lament
I’ll just crash out on your couch and we can split the rent
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
Let’s celebrate this love between us
Until we have to catch our bus
Whoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoa
Could you get the tip
I got a two for one
I got a two for one
I got a two for one coupon, baby
I call you up cause I got to see my girly
I thought about you, all day
And I just want to celebrate in a real special way
So fix your hair up just right
Put your best dress on
I got a two for one coupon
Being with you is like being in paradise
Especially when I don’t pay full price
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
I got a two for one coupon
And I just got to say
It expires today
The way your looking at me is giving me chills
Man, I hope this place has free refills
And the flowers that I got you that you hold so dear
Make me glad I passed the cemetery on the way here
And I don’t want to ruin this magical moment that were sharing
But on the way home can we stop at the store and return the suit that I’m wearing
And after that we’ll walk under the moonlight and hold hands
While we search for returnable cans
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
I got a two for one coupon
And I just got to say
It expires today
Baby, baby, your heaven sent
Let me move in with you cause right now I live in a tent
And if things don’t work out I won’t lament
I’ll just crash out on your couch and we can split the rent
I got a two for one coupon
That’s you and me
Buy one get one free
Let’s celebrate this love between us
Until we have to catch our bus
Whoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoa
Could you get the tip
I got a two for one
I got a two for one
I got a two for one coupon, baby
Lyrics submitted by NotCoolZeus
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