"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.
In the beginning it went straight to my head
You left me spinning, I fell right out the bedroom
It's a feeling that I'm not really used to,
Still believing that it'll end up fine
And then it hit me like a song that we once sang,
I sing along, it all comes back like a boomerang
And I'm just hoping you don't take the next train
We're gonna end up fine
Our time is right, right now
Save yourself, I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count, like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
And then I go and pull my trust in the feeling
September nights we spent attached to the ceiling
And now I want it more than ever believe me
We're gonna end up fine
Our time is right, right now
Save yourself,
I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count,
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
Looking back, the songs we loved to sing
Take a breath remember everything
It's all happening, it's all happening right now
It's the way I know you love the rain
Day came and washed us both away
It's all happening, it's all happening right now
Save yourself,
Save yourself
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I go fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
Save yourself,
I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count,
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I go fall into,
I fell into you
And then I go and fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
You left me spinning, I fell right out the bedroom
It's a feeling that I'm not really used to,
Still believing that it'll end up fine
And then it hit me like a song that we once sang,
I sing along, it all comes back like a boomerang
And I'm just hoping you don't take the next train
We're gonna end up fine
Our time is right, right now
Save yourself, I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count, like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
And then I go and pull my trust in the feeling
September nights we spent attached to the ceiling
And now I want it more than ever believe me
We're gonna end up fine
Our time is right, right now
Save yourself,
I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count,
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
Looking back, the songs we loved to sing
Take a breath remember everything
It's all happening, it's all happening right now
It's the way I know you love the rain
Day came and washed us both away
It's all happening, it's all happening right now
Save yourself,
Save yourself
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I go fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
Save yourself,
I'm gonna try to save me
Make it count,
Like it's the last time baby
And so I will not wait for something else
Until I go fall into,
I fell into you
And then I go and fall into a new disaster
My happily ever after's right now
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a ton of these lyrics are wrong. the girl needs to get her lyrics right before she posts them. =]