"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.
Lover of things
Won't you agree
How the winter could bring
The darkest spring
With hell on your face
Dirt on the walls
In the back of the place
You grew and complained
Father of three
Won't you believe
That the ones in between
The ones that are blamed
Of fickle faith
Cynics that seethe
How their children are cursed
Cursed to believe
It's like marrow without bone
To live in a house with no home
Where the son is the darkest seed
He crawls with the curs in the weeds
Where had you been son
Not in the street, not in the yard
Only once, I'll call off the dogs
If you call off your guard
Where had you gone
Where had you been
Won't you agree
How the winter could bring
The darkest spring
With hell on your face
Dirt on the walls
In the back of the place
You grew and complained
Father of three
Won't you believe
That the ones in between
The ones that are blamed
Of fickle faith
Cynics that seethe
How their children are cursed
Cursed to believe
It's like marrow without bone
To live in a house with no home
Where the son is the darkest seed
He crawls with the curs in the weeds
Where had you been son
Not in the street, not in the yard
Only once, I'll call off the dogs
If you call off your guard
Where had you gone
Where had you been
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Curs in the Weeds Lyrics as written by Justin Wayne Ringle
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like the beginning he say "Lover of things" so kinda addresses who this song is to there.
then "Father of three" - the father, the son and the holy spirit.
"With hell on your face, dirt on the walls in the back of the place, you grew and complained." - to keep it simple human sins.
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where had you gone? where had you been?
Only once, I'll call off the dogs, if you call off your guard.
Yeah, the father of three part definitely had me thinking of God. The marrow without bone could be representative of trying to believe in God without any firm evidence as we are that middle child after the death but before the return.