"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.
They're playing in Central Park
Check out him, he's shouting at the gate
Billy didn't tell you everything
Or did he mention the magic day?
Well I figured it out from a fig tree
It's the chosen fruit of the devil himself
Now you've been bad for 50 years
And now it looks like daddy's taking off his belt
Waiting for October
I cross my fingers
Cross my heart
And hope to die
Waiting for October
I'm in the book
And I'll be learning how to fly
He's coming down but he's not alone
He's gonna bring an army of saints
And he's taking all his back home
And then destroying what remains
Waiting for October
I cross my fingers
Cross my heart
And hope to die
Waiting for October
I'm in the book
And I'll be learning
To be winged
To be winged
Hoping that the end
Will start it all again
And that's when human history will die
I said it must be what's so right about the day
Cause it all ends in 1999
And commences on the 28th, the 28th, the 28th
Waiting for October
I cross my fingers
Cross my heart
And hope to die
Waiting for October
I'm in the book
And I'll be learning how to fly
Waiting for October
I cross my fingers
Aross my heart
And hope to die
Waiting for October
I'm in the books
And I'll be learning how to fly
Hopin' that the end
Will start it all again
Lyrics submitted by Krebstar
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