"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.
Not about to try
Time to please no one
The first and last begins
You mutter, you child
You should ask for more
Tired of being your no one
Fame can't hurt my soul
You mutter, you child
Leave
This is not for real
Forever pleasing someone
The first and last begins
You martyr, you child
You martyr, you child
Leave
Time to please no one
The first and last begins
You mutter, you child
You should ask for more
Tired of being your no one
Fame can't hurt my soul
You mutter, you child
Leave
This is not for real
Forever pleasing someone
The first and last begins
You martyr, you child
You martyr, you child
Leave
Lyrics submitted by No1Special, edited by JohnJillky, Breedthelove
Until You're Reformed Lyrics as written by Peter Loeffler Joseph Loeffler
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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