"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.
See you sittin' next to the window in the bedroom
She breaks down (breaks down)
Crying over something and starin' into nothin'
Afraid now (hate now)
Wanting, needing, haunting, it's killing me
Faking what has happened to live the life like that man
I'll break down, It's fake now
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Fade in and out of reason to fight the way she's feelin'
She breaks down (breaks down)
Going through the motions and holding onto hopes
And her dreams now (somehow)
Shaken (shaken), mistaken (mistaken), forsaken (forsaken), it's killing me
Wishing you could change, but he's always been this way
If you leave now, I'll drown
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Will you, will you be here tomorrow?
So will you, you remember yesterday?
Yesterday! Yesterday!
Yesterday! Yesterday!
This time, I'm sorry
This time, I'm sorry
This time, this time, I'm sorry for this time
This time, this time, I'm sorry
This time I'm sorry!
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Will you, will you be here tomorrow?
So will you, you remember yesterday?
Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you?
So will you?
Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you?
She breaks down (breaks down)
Crying over something and starin' into nothin'
Afraid now (hate now)
Wanting, needing, haunting, it's killing me
Faking what has happened to live the life like that man
I'll break down, It's fake now
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Fade in and out of reason to fight the way she's feelin'
She breaks down (breaks down)
Going through the motions and holding onto hopes
And her dreams now (somehow)
Shaken (shaken), mistaken (mistaken), forsaken (forsaken), it's killing me
Wishing you could change, but he's always been this way
If you leave now, I'll drown
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Will you, will you be here tomorrow?
So will you, you remember yesterday?
Yesterday! Yesterday!
Yesterday! Yesterday!
This time, I'm sorry
This time, I'm sorry
This time, this time, I'm sorry for this time
This time, this time, I'm sorry
This time I'm sorry!
Will you, will you love me tomorrow?
So will you, will you stay with me today?
Will you, will you be here tomorrow?
So will you, you remember yesterday?
Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you?
So will you?
Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you?
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all i know is that this song is good...and i like it :-D bbwell laterz! ~Nana~