"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.
Your eyes lit up the sky
Like fire flies
On a moonlit night
And I watched as
The world come down
From the sky
When you left me last night
And all this time of changing
You know I could never be alone
And all this time I’ve wasted
I know you could never be alone
But your shadows cast in the dark
By people who loathe to feel the scares
They can’t take away this pain
Of being alone
Alone in the dark
And all this time of changing
You know I could never be alone
And all this time I’ve wasted
I know you could never be alone
Like fire flies
On a moonlit night
And I watched as
The world come down
From the sky
When you left me last night
And all this time of changing
You know I could never be alone
And all this time I’ve wasted
I know you could never be alone
But your shadows cast in the dark
By people who loathe to feel the scares
They can’t take away this pain
Of being alone
Alone in the dark
And all this time of changing
You know I could never be alone
And all this time I’ve wasted
I know you could never be alone
Lyrics submitted by Bri Loves Nirvana
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