"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.
Sie herzte sanft ihr spielzeug
Bevor sie es zerbrach
Und hatte eine sehnsucht
Und wußte nicht wonach
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Und wer von diesem wein trank
Konnt’ nie mehr glücklich sein
Doch einer sprach I’m frühling:
Auch du fühlst lust und schmerz
Und brach ihr tausend rosen
Doch sie brach nur sein herz
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Ja, keine konnt’ so küssen
Und doch so einsam sein
Was blieb von ihrem leben
Ein lied, das niemand sang
Sankt peter ließ sie warten
Zwei ewigkeiten lang
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr herz so tot wie stein
Dann rief er: armes kind, komm,
Sollst nie mehr einsam sein
Bevor sie es zerbrach
Und hatte eine sehnsucht
Und wußte nicht wonach
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Und wer von diesem wein trank
Konnt’ nie mehr glücklich sein
Doch einer sprach I’m frühling:
Auch du fühlst lust und schmerz
Und brach ihr tausend rosen
Doch sie brach nur sein herz
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr mund so rot wie wein
Ja, keine konnt’ so küssen
Und doch so einsam sein
Was blieb von ihrem leben
Ein lied, das niemand sang
Sankt peter ließ sie warten
Zwei ewigkeiten lang
Weil sie einsam war
Und so blond ihr haar
Und ihr herz so tot wie stein
Dann rief er: armes kind, komm,
Sollst nie mehr einsam sein
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