"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.
Who are these men from your Middle America
Their political views they are cause for hysteria
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
They drive motorcycles but as boys they rode bikes
Their social position will reveal their dislikes to you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
Better than some I’ve got a lot to learn
I’m driving pickup toward the city, and I’m not very good
You’ve got your panoramic vision but you just can’t see
The inequalities that are in front of you that’s the letter E
You’re in solitude confinement here, in the office space from hell
Who are these men from your Middle America
Five million ten million middle American
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
If they show some concern it’s probably just a front
I don’t know, no left turns, no turns, that’s what they want from you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
Revoke all their licenses, do it permanently
Or just suspend their bleeding licenses do it temporarily
You can put them in jail or just let them alone
He sure does know he’s a blow hard frankly I don’t know
There are lousy there’s some good some bad
But none as good as I am
You’ve got your master plan for your Middle America
Like crashing my van into Middle America
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
The panoramic vision it is turning on
Pardon me sir while I drive back on over you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
So they hit the breaks hard and of course swerve to the right
So you can be a circle or a triangle for life
More education before licensing’s stiffer penalties
Remedial education for violators
Or D all of these
Your A, excellent
B, passable
Or C, just flunk yourself now!
Their political views they are cause for hysteria
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
They drive motorcycles but as boys they rode bikes
Their social position will reveal their dislikes to you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
Better than some I’ve got a lot to learn
I’m driving pickup toward the city, and I’m not very good
You’ve got your panoramic vision but you just can’t see
The inequalities that are in front of you that’s the letter E
You’re in solitude confinement here, in the office space from hell
Who are these men from your Middle America
Five million ten million middle American
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
If they show some concern it’s probably just a front
I don’t know, no left turns, no turns, that’s what they want from you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
Revoke all their licenses, do it permanently
Or just suspend their bleeding licenses do it temporarily
You can put them in jail or just let them alone
He sure does know he’s a blow hard frankly I don’t know
There are lousy there’s some good some bad
But none as good as I am
You’ve got your master plan for your Middle America
Like crashing my van into Middle America
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes
The panoramic vision it is turning on
Pardon me sir while I drive back on over you
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes (sometimes)
Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes
So they hit the breaks hard and of course swerve to the right
So you can be a circle or a triangle for life
More education before licensing’s stiffer penalties
Remedial education for violators
Or D all of these
Your A, excellent
B, passable
Or C, just flunk yourself now!
Lyrics submitted by Party_Chick
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