"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.
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
The plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety
Perimeter alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
A final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that
Haunts each waking day
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
Request for countermeasures
To stake claim of this, my cavern
None to take and none be given
As the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
Is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
In the silent halls of none
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight
Everybody said, "No, no, no"
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life
Everybody said "No, no, no"
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
This is the final resistance
Let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
The plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety
Perimeter alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
A final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that
Haunts each waking day
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
Request for countermeasures
To stake claim of this, my cavern
None to take and none be given
As the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
Is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
In the silent halls of none
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight
Everybody said, "No, no, no"
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life
Everybody said "No, no, no"
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
This is the final resistance
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Fast Car
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This is such an awesome song... Great live song... I love the way DT can create such great lyrical images utilizing so obscure and unclear words (they dont really come out and explain the song in detail, yet you sorta know inherently whats going on).
This song is most likely about a futuristic society in trouble, and The Reistance is fighting for freedom from some unknown enemy/government. However, being a part of The Resistance requires you to give up all your worldy hopes and aspiriations, and sacrifice your life for the greater good.