"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.
Just keep coughing and smoke another cigarette
Dreamanother big dream and just live in regret
So fuck the warning signs
Cause I"m already dead inside
Dying for a feeling
So say goodbye say goodnight
I won't let you let me go
This time it's all I have
Just keep screaming
No one's listening
Now I'm dying reaching out for anything
Screaming for attention
Oh my god something's got to give
Focused in black and white
Living like the color blinds
Every sense of feeling
And reason to save my life
I won't let you let me go
This time it's all I have
Just keep screaming
No one's listening
You are all I have
This is everything
This is all I ever needed
To save my life
I'll never open my eyes again
Dreamanother big dream and just live in regret
So fuck the warning signs
Cause I"m already dead inside
Dying for a feeling
So say goodbye say goodnight
I won't let you let me go
This time it's all I have
Just keep screaming
No one's listening
Now I'm dying reaching out for anything
Screaming for attention
Oh my god something's got to give
Focused in black and white
Living like the color blinds
Every sense of feeling
And reason to save my life
I won't let you let me go
This time it's all I have
Just keep screaming
No one's listening
You are all I have
This is everything
This is all I ever needed
To save my life
I'll never open my eyes again
Lyrics submitted by hardvier
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