"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.
Somebody's shouting up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody's up there, it's a deception
When will I ever learn?
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home
Wondering blindly
How can they find me?
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And taunting with pictures of home
Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there's no worship
Where have they hidden my throne?
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And screaming out pictures of home
Only my own words return
Nobody's up there, it's a deception
When will I ever learn?
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home
Wondering blindly
How can they find me?
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And taunting with pictures of home
Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there's no worship
Where have they hidden my throne?
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And screaming out pictures of home
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This...song...rocks!
Seems to be about the singer's mistake in coming to a certain place (his career?) and longing for his home.
ian gillan said this song is about the small furry creatures sometimes found in Roger Glovers pockets.
awesome song, paices drumming outstanding!!
@tufrusky Furry creatures? Really? Wow.
rocks!!!deep purple rocks!!!! about being lost without anything familiar
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IIRC it's about when they were recording Machine Head & it was really cold & miserable weather the band were longing for home.
@NJJ Yep! They recorded that album in December 1971 in a very cold Montreaux, Switzerland. It was their 6th studio album which I wasn't aware of.