"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.
open wide, eyes
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
wide eyes
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
increasing
and bridge this craft to their ties
ripen said commons
comatose in this sentence
our pressure's been pressing
our head's in a cloud
it would've helped us to know
open wide, eyes
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
we've been searching for so long
open wide eyes
i have to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling for so long
increasing
and bridge this craft to their ties
ripen said commons
comatose in this sentence
our pressure's been pressing
our head's in a cloud
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
wide eyes
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
increasing
and bridge this craft to their ties
ripen said commons
comatose in this sentence
our pressure's been pressing
our head's in a cloud
it would've helped us to know
open wide, eyes
i've got to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling
for so long
we've been searching for so long
open wide eyes
i have to tell you
calculating, captivating lies
like our heads have been swimming
and swirling for so long
increasing
and bridge this craft to their ties
ripen said commons
comatose in this sentence
our pressure's been pressing
our head's in a cloud
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