"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.
Leaning on a tree trunk,
thinking all the same junk
fallin in and out of a dream,
back and forth I'm swaying,
I'm contemplating staying,
Laying and decaying
when I know I must leave
Where do I aim when I shoot the breeze?
How do I calm myself at times like theses?
I need a simple kind of lovely and the thought is just a novelty
You can spend the whole time
Dangling from a grape vine
Standing underneath you
When they cut you free
What about when the sun leaves?
And what about all those bad dreams?
Who will walk you back into reality?
I wish things could be like this everyday
But I know that I could never live this way
It was just a simple kind of lovely
And the memories will be ok
The memories will be ok
Memories will be ok
thinking all the same junk
fallin in and out of a dream,
back and forth I'm swaying,
I'm contemplating staying,
Laying and decaying
when I know I must leave
Where do I aim when I shoot the breeze?
How do I calm myself at times like theses?
I need a simple kind of lovely and the thought is just a novelty
You can spend the whole time
Dangling from a grape vine
Standing underneath you
When they cut you free
What about when the sun leaves?
And what about all those bad dreams?
Who will walk you back into reality?
I wish things could be like this everyday
But I know that I could never live this way
It was just a simple kind of lovely
And the memories will be ok
The memories will be ok
Memories will be ok
Lyrics submitted by Froggies
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