"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.
Tonight I kiss my lover for the last time
Hee comes for me at midnight, slipping past the gate
Floating to my bed
I'll let his hands caress me for the last time
He knifes into my body
Forcibly and proud
My lover is incredibly endowed
Thicker than my husband
And as I kiss my lover for the last time
The room disolves around me
I desert my body
All of time is gone
Dusk is dawn
Dawn is noon
Late is now
Now is soon
This is what its like to be God
I watch myself outside myself
Sleep and breath and wake and sigh
Laugh and kiss and fuck and lie
My god, it's hell to be God
Watching from a distance
I neither laugh nor cry
As the flood gates are open
And the innocent die
A lie becomes the truth and the truth becomes a lie
Lie
Tonight I kiss my lover for the last time
My husband knows our secret
I've confessed my guilt
I'll end my lover's life
and I'll return to my body
To my four cornered room
What I've set in motion
Cannot be reversed
Time will resume
Time
Time
Time
Hee comes for me at midnight, slipping past the gate
Floating to my bed
I'll let his hands caress me for the last time
He knifes into my body
Forcibly and proud
My lover is incredibly endowed
Thicker than my husband
And as I kiss my lover for the last time
The room disolves around me
I desert my body
All of time is gone
Dusk is dawn
Dawn is noon
Late is now
Now is soon
This is what its like to be God
I watch myself outside myself
Sleep and breath and wake and sigh
Laugh and kiss and fuck and lie
My god, it's hell to be God
Watching from a distance
I neither laugh nor cry
As the flood gates are open
And the innocent die
A lie becomes the truth and the truth becomes a lie
Lie
Tonight I kiss my lover for the last time
My husband knows our secret
I've confessed my guilt
I'll end my lover's life
and I'll return to my body
To my four cornered room
What I've set in motion
Cannot be reversed
Time will resume
Time
Time
Time
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