"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.
Well, you said it was over
Your life-will as you know it
You'll want to get a tan
And float, yeah, out to sea
A sea without a shore
Where no one really knows you
Because you don't believe
Yeah, on your hands on knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands
And so I let it fall in
My life-will as it was
You couldn't have it your way
And so you lost it all
I couldn't believe in someone
Who couldn't believe in something
You gotta believe in something
Get on your hands and knees
Well, you said it was over
Your life-will as you know it
You'll want to get a tan
And float, yeah, out to sea
A sea without a shore
Where no one really knows you
Because you don't believe
Yeah, on your hands on knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees, get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off, get off, get off, get off your hands (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees
Your life-will as you know it
You'll want to get a tan
And float, yeah, out to sea
A sea without a shore
Where no one really knows you
Because you don't believe
Yeah, on your hands on knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands
And so I let it fall in
My life-will as it was
You couldn't have it your way
And so you lost it all
I couldn't believe in someone
Who couldn't believe in something
You gotta believe in something
Get on your hands and knees
Well, you said it was over
Your life-will as you know it
You'll want to get a tan
And float, yeah, out to sea
A sea without a shore
Where no one really knows you
Because you don't believe
Yeah, on your hands on knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees, get off your hands and knees (pick yourself up)
Get off, get off, get off, get off your hands (pick yourself up)
Get off your hands and knees
Lyrics submitted by SykoNachoman
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