"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.
Fragile man I see
It's been hard
And I know that you're doing your part
And I know in the end
That it feels like a purposeless piece of art
Take it in stride, my prefontaine
You can kick hard at the end
Dear woman
You're wearing your hurt
And hiding what's left of your love
And it seems like there's no one to love you
This world has taken all that you're capable of
Take it in stride, my prefontaine
You can kick hard at the end
You have the guts, my prefontaine
Sacrefice your gift, my friend
Prefontaine, you did it again
What you sold your preemptive when
You ran down one lonely street
And the one thing that could stop you
Did
But child, there's no easy way out of the fast lane
Slow down and listen, my prefontaine
Fight the good fight in this beautiful life
Keep the faith
And finish the race
It's been hard
And I know that you're doing your part
And I know in the end
That it feels like a purposeless piece of art
Take it in stride, my prefontaine
You can kick hard at the end
Dear woman
You're wearing your hurt
And hiding what's left of your love
And it seems like there's no one to love you
This world has taken all that you're capable of
Take it in stride, my prefontaine
You can kick hard at the end
You have the guts, my prefontaine
Sacrefice your gift, my friend
Prefontaine, you did it again
What you sold your preemptive when
You ran down one lonely street
And the one thing that could stop you
Did
But child, there's no easy way out of the fast lane
Slow down and listen, my prefontaine
Fight the good fight in this beautiful life
Keep the faith
And finish the race
Lyrics submitted by risefromtheashes
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