"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.
Take all the time that you need,
but I think you’d better find me
Come down and around but hurry, I think you’d better find me
I can’t listen to neighbors speak
No, I can’t take no more
I can’t listen to their lips speak
No, I can’t take it no more
I thought it again and I had that dream again last night
I’m drowning children in a river
Oh, good God, you’ve got to find me
Tons of children drowning with (?)
Oh, I think you’d better find me
I don’t want all my clothes going back into charitable hands
When your fists hit the table you said it’s going to be alright
When your head hit the table that’s when I called it a night
Come, come to me and say it’s going to be alright
Come, come here to me and say it’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright even in the night
Even in the night
but I think you’d better find me
Come down and around but hurry, I think you’d better find me
I can’t listen to neighbors speak
No, I can’t take no more
I can’t listen to their lips speak
No, I can’t take it no more
I thought it again and I had that dream again last night
I’m drowning children in a river
Oh, good God, you’ve got to find me
Tons of children drowning with (?)
Oh, I think you’d better find me
I don’t want all my clothes going back into charitable hands
When your fists hit the table you said it’s going to be alright
When your head hit the table that’s when I called it a night
Come, come to me and say it’s going to be alright
Come, come here to me and say it’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright
It’s going to be alright even in the night
Even in the night
Lyrics submitted by lanee
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Here, in case you didn't see the other comment I posted. img521.imageshack.us/my.php
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