"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.
Big head spray tan
Makes you wanna drop dead
Really ain't all that bright
Comatose, broken nose
Strutting with ya flashy clothes
Small things stay behind
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Talkin' all that shit
It's dumbest thing you did
Cause they're gonna snuff you out like a bitch
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
Lazy boy decoy
Send the troops destroy
Looking so arrogant
Juggernaut, hooligan
Reputation getting thin
Robbing the establishment
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Smokin' all that dope
Passin' out on dirty coke
So you better take a breath
Or you're gonna fuckin' choke
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Easy come easy go
Red alert in Mexico
Drive by revenant
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
Makes you wanna drop dead
Really ain't all that bright
Comatose, broken nose
Strutting with ya flashy clothes
Small things stay behind
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Talkin' all that shit
It's dumbest thing you did
Cause they're gonna snuff you out like a bitch
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
Lazy boy decoy
Send the troops destroy
Looking so arrogant
Juggernaut, hooligan
Reputation getting thin
Robbing the establishment
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Smokin' all that dope
Passin' out on dirty coke
So you better take a breath
Or you're gonna fuckin' choke
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
It's all news to me
And I can't believe
The things I'm seeing on TV
Easy come easy go
Red alert in Mexico
Drive by revenant
You won't see it till you see the light
Cause it's all gonna pass you by
So cast your stone into the night
The shinings gone, walk away
Walk Away
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