"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.
Now I'm hiding behind your staircase
Waiting to tell you something
You will never believe
I've got a lot to tell you about me
If won't go over well
Well I don't care
You can't turn off
That you're dead
You just deal with it
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I see the time line of you whole life
Well I admit that I'm not more
Than a scratch I left behind
But there's the point you can't slim away from
I know you feel
It won't let you go
You can't turn off
That you're dead
You just deal with it
(Deal with it)
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
The ghost of what I left behind is
Tracking me right back next to you
Believe me
It's the truth I swear
Believe me
It's the truth I swear
Deal with it
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
Thought I was dreaming
(I was put here for you)
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
(I was put here just for you)
I've got a secret
(I was put here for you)
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
(I was put here just for you)
Just for you
Waiting to tell you something
You will never believe
I've got a lot to tell you about me
If won't go over well
Well I don't care
You can't turn off
That you're dead
You just deal with it
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I see the time line of you whole life
Well I admit that I'm not more
Than a scratch I left behind
But there's the point you can't slim away from
I know you feel
It won't let you go
You can't turn off
That you're dead
You just deal with it
(Deal with it)
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
The ghost of what I left behind is
Tracking me right back next to you
Believe me
It's the truth I swear
Believe me
It's the truth I swear
Deal with it
Thought I was dreaming
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
I've got a secret
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
That I was put here for you
Thought I was dreaming
(I was put here for you)
My heart stopped beating
Well I got this feeling
(I was put here just for you)
I've got a secret
(I was put here for you)
You won't believe it
Well I got this feeling
(I was put here just for you)
Just for you
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