"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.
One man, he disappoint me
He give me the gouge and take my glee
Now every other man I see
Remind me of the one man who disappointed me
Wait til I get him back!
He won't have a back to scratch
Yeah, keep turning that chin
And you will see my face as I figure how to kill what I cannot catch
So I say and on I go
To another one who disappoint me so
The next one up: a contemptible snob!
He live to put things in their place
He did a commendable job
He put himself so low he can hardly even look me in the face
Wait til I get him back!
He won't have a back to scratch
Yeah, keep turning that chin
And you will see my face as I figure how to kill what I cannot catch
Oh, he make my blood just burn
I flipped so far I thought that I would not return
But the last one I had who was getting my hopes up
I might've been a little fast to dismiss
I think he let me down when he didn't disappoint me
He didn't always guess right but he usually got my gist
So wait til I get him back!
I'm gonna bring him home and I'll watch him unpack
He keep turning that chin
And you will see my face, it's fixed on the one I'm gonna get back
I'm gonna get him back
I am
I'm gonna get him back
I really am
I'm gonna get him back
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm gonna-
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm gonna-
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
He give me the gouge and take my glee
Now every other man I see
Remind me of the one man who disappointed me
Wait til I get him back!
He won't have a back to scratch
Yeah, keep turning that chin
And you will see my face as I figure how to kill what I cannot catch
So I say and on I go
To another one who disappoint me so
The next one up: a contemptible snob!
He live to put things in their place
He did a commendable job
He put himself so low he can hardly even look me in the face
Wait til I get him back!
He won't have a back to scratch
Yeah, keep turning that chin
And you will see my face as I figure how to kill what I cannot catch
Oh, he make my blood just burn
I flipped so far I thought that I would not return
But the last one I had who was getting my hopes up
I might've been a little fast to dismiss
I think he let me down when he didn't disappoint me
He didn't always guess right but he usually got my gist
So wait til I get him back!
I'm gonna bring him home and I'll watch him unpack
He keep turning that chin
And you will see my face, it's fixed on the one I'm gonna get back
I'm gonna get him back
I am
I'm gonna get him back
I really am
I'm gonna get him back
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm gonna-
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm gonna-
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
Lyrics submitted by schmuun
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