"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.
The road turned into a snake
And looked in my veins and said
It's in your blood
That's when I tried to run
But it was way too dark
I got scared and ran into your arms
oh sweet chemical predicament
I can't stop, can't change the evident
Predisposed to forget the best part
A story where the hero dies without regard
Made sure that the needle was clean when I let myself fall asleep
And all I kept was a piece of your picture
It slipped from her fingers when I slid into my dreams
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
I know you know how it feels to make a clean break
My bones are your bones
My home is your home
You must be so confused
I got scared and ran away from you
Oh sweet divine predicament
I can't hide I can't change the evident
we disposed the trusted photograph
To portray the way you used to laugh
Do you recall and do you wed
Such a radiant pride
You couldn't wait to see your first born take his very first steps
And you smiled at him cause you thought he looked like me
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
now I've died, you question so much
I don't possess the strength to answer straight
And no, I'm not afraid, at least not to die
I'm afraid to live and not remember why
Sweet chemical indifference
I can't stop, can't change the evident
predisposed to perpetual sickness
I refuse to let you all be witness
Make sure the needle is clean when you let me go back to sleep
And situate the piece of her picture underneath my fingers
It protects me in my dreams
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
And looked in my veins and said
It's in your blood
That's when I tried to run
But it was way too dark
I got scared and ran into your arms
oh sweet chemical predicament
I can't stop, can't change the evident
Predisposed to forget the best part
A story where the hero dies without regard
Made sure that the needle was clean when I let myself fall asleep
And all I kept was a piece of your picture
It slipped from her fingers when I slid into my dreams
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
I know you know how it feels to make a clean break
My bones are your bones
My home is your home
You must be so confused
I got scared and ran away from you
Oh sweet divine predicament
I can't hide I can't change the evident
we disposed the trusted photograph
To portray the way you used to laugh
Do you recall and do you wed
Such a radiant pride
You couldn't wait to see your first born take his very first steps
And you smiled at him cause you thought he looked like me
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
now I've died, you question so much
I don't possess the strength to answer straight
And no, I'm not afraid, at least not to die
I'm afraid to live and not remember why
Sweet chemical indifference
I can't stop, can't change the evident
predisposed to perpetual sickness
I refuse to let you all be witness
Make sure the needle is clean when you let me go back to sleep
And situate the piece of her picture underneath my fingers
It protects me in my dreams
it's not as deep as it seems
And unfair as it may be
I'm just here to remind you
Remind you not to forget to remember me
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