"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.
there is an orphan
wandering main streets
running from faces
he never sees
running from figures
he can't make out
fueled on fear and
drowned by doubt
victim of circumstance
victim of love
got lost in the crowd
the push and shove
they promised you secrets
angels only tell
they promise you heaven and
give you hell
he used to be the whiz kid
used to be the pride and joy
do no wrong
fill your heart with a song
everybody's blue eyed boy
everybody's blue eyed boy
there's an angel on the porch
answer the door
tell them ol blue eyes doesn't
live here anymore
no fowarding adderss
was left behind
the mail box was full of
old valentines
he used to be the whiz kid
used to be the pride and joy
do no wrong
fill your heart with a song
everybody's blue eyed boy
everybody's blue eyed boy
wandering main streets
running from faces
he never sees
running from figures
he can't make out
fueled on fear and
drowned by doubt
victim of circumstance
victim of love
got lost in the crowd
the push and shove
they promised you secrets
angels only tell
they promise you heaven and
give you hell
he used to be the whiz kid
used to be the pride and joy
do no wrong
fill your heart with a song
everybody's blue eyed boy
everybody's blue eyed boy
there's an angel on the porch
answer the door
tell them ol blue eyes doesn't
live here anymore
no fowarding adderss
was left behind
the mail box was full of
old valentines
he used to be the whiz kid
used to be the pride and joy
do no wrong
fill your heart with a song
everybody's blue eyed boy
everybody's blue eyed boy
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