"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 looked at you and you smiled.
Will this feeling last forever?
Will it die and fade away?
Is this all that we'll share?
I'll pour my heart out if you'll stay
And there's a chance that you might say
�??this could be never-ending.â??
Through all these years
The sweat and tears,
And now it comes to this.
I can't see that
The rituals of my life define me.
No words can express
How you're loosing faith in me,
And I'm loosing strength from you.
[Chorus:]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
I can't believe that you turn your back
On everything you promised me.
I can't believe that I turned my back
And now you've erased me.
I can't believe that I turned my back.
I always knew that you'd turn your back.
And so it goes, well I suppose,
Its time, its time to move along now.
Times have changed and
Faces rearranged
Now you sing another song.
[Chorus]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
That night I looked at you and you smiled.
The feeling's gone forever,
It's been replaced with something new.
There's nothing more for us to do.
I gave you everything that I had
And after all that we've been through,
This could be never-ending.
[Chorus]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
Will this feeling last forever?
Will it die and fade away?
Is this all that we'll share?
I'll pour my heart out if you'll stay
And there's a chance that you might say
�??this could be never-ending.â??
Through all these years
The sweat and tears,
And now it comes to this.
I can't see that
The rituals of my life define me.
No words can express
How you're loosing faith in me,
And I'm loosing strength from you.
[Chorus:]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
I can't believe that you turn your back
On everything you promised me.
I can't believe that I turned my back
And now you've erased me.
I can't believe that I turned my back.
I always knew that you'd turn your back.
And so it goes, well I suppose,
Its time, its time to move along now.
Times have changed and
Faces rearranged
Now you sing another song.
[Chorus]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
That night I looked at you and you smiled.
The feeling's gone forever,
It's been replaced with something new.
There's nothing more for us to do.
I gave you everything that I had
And after all that we've been through,
This could be never-ending.
[Chorus]
I tried, you cried,
We said we'd try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
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