"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.
This is not your mommy
Talking down to you
This is not your father figure
Telling you what you can not do
This is not your brother
I sure as hell don't love you
This is not your sister
Cause I just don't have the time
And this just ain't the place for you
You just can't understand
I spent my life oh feeding your hands
Hey man you'd better got your feet down on the ground
Before your walls come tumbling down
This is not your friendship
I don't buy what you wear
This is not your enemy
I don't laugh because you stare
This is not your lover
I just don't want to
This is not your everything
I just don't have the time
And this just aint the place for you
You just can't understand
I spent my life oh feeding your hands
Hey man you'd better got your feet down on the ground
Just past me
CHORUS
Please Stay with me a while
The things you'd be
And Stay with me a while
I know it's hard
Stand by yourself
Stay with me a while
There is nothing but hatred between us
I hope your walls come tumbling down
CHORUS
I know it's hard to stand by
Must stand by your
Yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Just ask me please
Please Stay
Talking down to you
This is not your father figure
Telling you what you can not do
This is not your brother
I sure as hell don't love you
This is not your sister
Cause I just don't have the time
And this just ain't the place for you
You just can't understand
I spent my life oh feeding your hands
Hey man you'd better got your feet down on the ground
Before your walls come tumbling down
This is not your friendship
I don't buy what you wear
This is not your enemy
I don't laugh because you stare
This is not your lover
I just don't want to
This is not your everything
I just don't have the time
And this just aint the place for you
You just can't understand
I spent my life oh feeding your hands
Hey man you'd better got your feet down on the ground
Just past me
CHORUS
Please Stay with me a while
The things you'd be
And Stay with me a while
I know it's hard
Stand by yourself
Stay with me a while
There is nothing but hatred between us
I hope your walls come tumbling down
CHORUS
I know it's hard to stand by
Must stand by your
Yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Just ask me please
Please Stay
Lyrics submitted by far2bowen
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