"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.
54321 Pow! That's the time to go that's my spaceship signal
Endorphin morphin rushin for touchin per-cu cu cussion hit it hard hit it rough
What, I blushed
Premillenial gland kickin, perennial antennial kiss me again
Time to leave exit earth spaceship berth, no more hurt
I'll meet you halfway
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright keep it alright, I keep it alright.
Boy you got me trippin, bleeps blip blip blippin
Hard thinkin drinkin heart kickin
Jaw Slack like a Chicken my mission
Trippin me up flippin me pick-pick- Listen
Tick on the clock balls gonna drop I'm gonna stop
Get on the job I wanna rob I'm feelin hot hot
Makin it hot play with my heart give all I got
You wanna clock how long I got -by the end of the song your mouth and mine be locked
Word I'm not gonna sit in here try n drop how I'm on top
I'm not sweatin here I just want what I want
And let me make it clear how you got it- you got it
It's tricky tricky tricky stomach sicky if you pick me kick me simply cuz I'm dreamin
C'mon pick me miss me how I'm screamin kiss me nick me hot diggy sick it to me give it to me
Hand it to me bandit, bandit, be a man
Tuck me undercover lover hover on my planet lover mad habits mad for havoc
gotta have it
Planned it like you never had it, gallavant like elephants-- so so fat
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright, keep it alright, I keep it alright.
My walkie talkie's on high for you anytime
For you, but I'm still walkin-- flyin high for you
Frequent indecencies only one like me
Transmittin frequencies only you and me could see, space time infinity
I can see for miles and miles, your smile, I keep my mind beyond
Well I could die any minute
Come up in it a mile a minute
It's imminent and while I'm in it gotta hit it and I mean it
Can I feel it close close-freeze
How's it supposed, supposed to be
Now hot in the most most you'll ever need
Now from coast to coast I breathe
I breathe I breathe I breathe I breath I breath I breathe --I keep it on the
alright baby, keep it on the alright baby, keep it on the alright baby
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright, keep it alright, I keep it alright.
Endorphin morphin rushin for touchin per-cu cu cussion hit it hard hit it rough
What, I blushed
Premillenial gland kickin, perennial antennial kiss me again
Time to leave exit earth spaceship berth, no more hurt
I'll meet you halfway
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright keep it alright, I keep it alright.
Boy you got me trippin, bleeps blip blip blippin
Hard thinkin drinkin heart kickin
Jaw Slack like a Chicken my mission
Trippin me up flippin me pick-pick- Listen
Tick on the clock balls gonna drop I'm gonna stop
Get on the job I wanna rob I'm feelin hot hot
Makin it hot play with my heart give all I got
You wanna clock how long I got -by the end of the song your mouth and mine be locked
Word I'm not gonna sit in here try n drop how I'm on top
I'm not sweatin here I just want what I want
And let me make it clear how you got it- you got it
It's tricky tricky tricky stomach sicky if you pick me kick me simply cuz I'm dreamin
C'mon pick me miss me how I'm screamin kiss me nick me hot diggy sick it to me give it to me
Hand it to me bandit, bandit, be a man
Tuck me undercover lover hover on my planet lover mad habits mad for havoc
gotta have it
Planned it like you never had it, gallavant like elephants-- so so fat
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright, keep it alright, I keep it alright.
My walkie talkie's on high for you anytime
For you, but I'm still walkin-- flyin high for you
Frequent indecencies only one like me
Transmittin frequencies only you and me could see, space time infinity
I can see for miles and miles, your smile, I keep my mind beyond
Well I could die any minute
Come up in it a mile a minute
It's imminent and while I'm in it gotta hit it and I mean it
Can I feel it close close-freeze
How's it supposed, supposed to be
Now hot in the most most you'll ever need
Now from coast to coast I breathe
I breathe I breathe I breathe I breath I breath I breathe --I keep it on the
alright baby, keep it on the alright baby, keep it on the alright baby
I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway, I'll meet you halfway to the
sky and the stars yo I'll meet you halfway but baby just smile at me, keep
it alright keep it alright, keep it alright, I keep it alright.
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