"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.
Maybe she'll snap her wrists doing cartwheels, or her ankle, dancing drunken at some rave. Maybe she'll go through a windshield and have twinkling bits of glass stuck in her face. She's so pretty in her casts, damaged so perfectly. She's so pretty in her casts, the prettiest thing I've ever seen. I only get to hold her when she's injured. I only get to kiss her where she's sore.
Lyrics submitted by rustedhope, edited by SixThreeTimes
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its more than obvious to me that this song is about a girl that only comes to a guy when shes hurt or needs help in some way...and the guy cares about her so much and wants to see her so bad that hes hoping shell get hurt so shell come to him and he can love her in the moment. "I only get to hold her when she's injured I only get to kiss her where she's sore"
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i agree with chriswantstocry. this song is about a girl who comes to the narrator when shes hurt. thats why he wants her to get hurt, so that she comes to him and he can kiss her and hold her. the 'hurt' could mean physical or mental, i like to think that its both. Pig Destoyer rocks either way