"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.
What comes as no surprise
To a jaded mind no less
Insight comes from soothing grace
Left to waiting days
Another chord unstrummed
Our secret's safe and sound
Solid now unless it breaks in two
Faithfully unbound
None of this was ever built to last
In the paleness of a less than life
From a corner watching old paint dry
Never once a break
Into the self again
An endeavour that will flat our fail
What maturity comes to end
Never one to face
Another beat undone
Our secret's safe and sound
Solid now unless it breaks in two
Faithfully unbound
None of this was ever built to last
Once again
Another instant saved today
Left a print that leads nowhere
Never built to last
What makes it work?
A part of life that makes the weak hearts grow
Take it in if you're willing to say
Willing to do
Prepared to lay it down
Just know this
It was never built to last
It was never ever built to last
To a jaded mind no less
Insight comes from soothing grace
Left to waiting days
Another chord unstrummed
Our secret's safe and sound
Solid now unless it breaks in two
Faithfully unbound
None of this was ever built to last
In the paleness of a less than life
From a corner watching old paint dry
Never once a break
Into the self again
An endeavour that will flat our fail
What maturity comes to end
Never one to face
Another beat undone
Our secret's safe and sound
Solid now unless it breaks in two
Faithfully unbound
None of this was ever built to last
Once again
Another instant saved today
Left a print that leads nowhere
Never built to last
What makes it work?
A part of life that makes the weak hearts grow
Take it in if you're willing to say
Willing to do
Prepared to lay it down
Just know this
It was never built to last
It was never ever built to last
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