"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.
Out on the freeway
I saw you wasted
Nobody wants you to fall
Except for me
(Dentle plain, marriges, lots of babies, dentogen)
Except for me
(Press hot sex, Fuck more and love less)
Call me up daily
Just to remind me
Nobody wants you at all
Except for me
(Charity Charity, Everybody look at me)
Except for me
(Wanna be so alike I'm finishing, Finishing, finishing, finishing)
Your so important
That you stay untouched
You start to cry
And when we go pink dutch
You've always wondered
Why i don't say much
Well lets see how well you walk
Without a crutch
(One two, one two, one two three four)
I really hate you
Still trying to shake you
Nobody's going to call
Except for me
(No, it's not logical, it's biological)
Except for me
(And if you're willing, it's us I'm killing)
Got a new girlfriend
Is she a godsend
Or is she just methadone?
I'll wait and see
(They say it's darkest just before the crowded light)
If I stay clean
(You gotta fuck somebody over 'fore you get it right)
You're seeing someone now
For what that's worth
He's got your love
And so they'll have your curse
Freeway of love in a check black hearse
And I really can not think
Of what that's worth
And I really can not think
Of what would be worse
Can I think of one more verse....
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up with your verse! Shut up!)
I saw you wasted
Nobody wants you to fall
Except for me
(Dentle plain, marriges, lots of babies, dentogen)
Except for me
(Press hot sex, Fuck more and love less)
Call me up daily
Just to remind me
Nobody wants you at all
Except for me
(Charity Charity, Everybody look at me)
Except for me
(Wanna be so alike I'm finishing, Finishing, finishing, finishing)
Your so important
That you stay untouched
You start to cry
And when we go pink dutch
You've always wondered
Why i don't say much
Well lets see how well you walk
Without a crutch
(One two, one two, one two three four)
I really hate you
Still trying to shake you
Nobody's going to call
Except for me
(No, it's not logical, it's biological)
Except for me
(And if you're willing, it's us I'm killing)
Got a new girlfriend
Is she a godsend
Or is she just methadone?
I'll wait and see
(They say it's darkest just before the crowded light)
If I stay clean
(You gotta fuck somebody over 'fore you get it right)
You're seeing someone now
For what that's worth
He's got your love
And so they'll have your curse
Freeway of love in a check black hearse
And I really can not think
Of what that's worth
And I really can not think
Of what would be worse
Can I think of one more verse....
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up with your verse! Shut up!)
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"shut up, shut up with your verse..."
i think this song is about a man who is constantly worrying that his girlfriend will cheat on him so he makes her feel bad subtly, so he can make her feel better again but by this constant worrying he ruins the relationship but thinks that the girl cant do any better and he is all she has, which is really true, but they both dont really get over eachother when they get another partner, and only time can really tell whether they will get over eachother (do not know how i have interpreted this!)