"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.
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done?
East End streets are a lonely place
On a dark November night
But I don't seem to feel the cold
And I can see without a light
Prowling through the backstreets
I was feeling more than hungry
When I saw a man walk out of the door
Of the house of Mary Kelly
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done?
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done to Mary Jane?
He gave a smle and asked if I
Was a lady of the night
In a manner of speaking, yes, I said
Then he produced a knife
He said he was going to kill me
And he gave an evil grin
But then he looked into my eyes
That was the end of him
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I walked him down through Aldgate
Down Leaman street to Watling
Hypnotised, he told me all
The things that he'd been doing
I said, I am a vampire
But I'm not as bad as you
You seem to kill for pleasure
I only kill for food
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
You are my next victim
Was the last thing that he said
I laughed and cried, you can't kill me
I'm already dead
I made him kneel before me
He heard the three o'clock bell
then I sunk my teeth into his neck
Sent him off to hell
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done?
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done to Mary Jane?
What have you done?
What have you done?
East End streets are a lonely place
On a dark November night
But I don't seem to feel the cold
And I can see without a light
Prowling through the backstreets
I was feeling more than hungry
When I saw a man walk out of the door
Of the house of Mary Kelly
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done?
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done to Mary Jane?
He gave a smle and asked if I
Was a lady of the night
In a manner of speaking, yes, I said
Then he produced a knife
He said he was going to kill me
And he gave an evil grin
But then he looked into my eyes
That was the end of him
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I walked him down through Aldgate
Down Leaman street to Watling
Hypnotised, he told me all
The things that he'd been doing
I said, I am a vampire
But I'm not as bad as you
You seem to kill for pleasure
I only kill for food
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
You are my next victim
Was the last thing that he said
I laughed and cried, you can't kill me
I'm already dead
I made him kneel before me
He heard the three o'clock bell
then I sunk my teeth into his neck
Sent him off to hell
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
Drunk his blood and threw him in a river
I'm the woman that killed Jack the Ripper
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done?
What have you done to Mary Kelly?
What have you done to Mary Jane?
What have you done?
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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