"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.
Lights out in your room
Lights out in your car you gotta hit the ground running
Lights out in the streets where I walked
To carry you home and there's no way out
I know you fell asleep, pray you don't sleep where you are now you're
All alone
I know you were led by a dark hand
and ill wait for the morning
Ill trade in all my blood
For everything that you are
What I found is the truth
What I found is enough you gotta keep on running
What I found in the room was my love
All eaten up and you're all alone
I know that you escaped, cenobites sound the alarm and there's no way out
I know you were led by a dark hand
lights out in your room
Lights out in the sky you gotta hit the ground running
Lights out in the head that you wore
As a disguise and then you'll die alone
I know they took you back, spitting out chains from the wall you know
There's no way out
I know you were led by a dark hand
Lights out in your car you gotta hit the ground running
Lights out in the streets where I walked
To carry you home and there's no way out
I know you fell asleep, pray you don't sleep where you are now you're
All alone
I know you were led by a dark hand
and ill wait for the morning
Ill trade in all my blood
For everything that you are
What I found is the truth
What I found is enough you gotta keep on running
What I found in the room was my love
All eaten up and you're all alone
I know that you escaped, cenobites sound the alarm and there's no way out
I know you were led by a dark hand
lights out in your room
Lights out in the sky you gotta hit the ground running
Lights out in the head that you wore
As a disguise and then you'll die alone
I know they took you back, spitting out chains from the wall you know
There's no way out
I know you were led by a dark hand
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