"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.
You you
You can't say that I really didn't love ya
There's a new new
New new Louis bag for every time that I touched it
Quit actin 'like I'm the only one to blame(honey)
Didn't hear you scream, no!
When you was trickin' off my money
But you left me hear to clean up yo dirty laundry
(oh yeaahh)
So kiss that nigga
Hug that nigga
Love that nigga to death
Go head and please that nigga
Feed that nigga
In time you'll see the problems ya self
Cause when love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is the problem
Money can't solve it
When love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is ya problem
No man can solve it
Now do you
You can look back at all the shit you've done
To her loves a jail so so so so so she stays on the run
You give her money
She wants love
You give her love
Shes back at money
She'll run from man to man
Makin plans to plan
No secret ya'll know who we talkin' bout
Cause when love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is the problem
Money can't solve it
When love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is ya problem
No man can solve it
Oh nothing
Solve it solve it
Uh ohhh
Solve it solve it solve it
Uh ohhh
I wonder if you'll ever take the responsibility of what you already done
All the time you figure out that shes not the one three years have went by nigga you done
No no no no no
You done [Repeat x12]
You can have her back
You can't say that I really didn't love ya
There's a new new
New new Louis bag for every time that I touched it
Quit actin 'like I'm the only one to blame(honey)
Didn't hear you scream, no!
When you was trickin' off my money
But you left me hear to clean up yo dirty laundry
(oh yeaahh)
So kiss that nigga
Hug that nigga
Love that nigga to death
Go head and please that nigga
Feed that nigga
In time you'll see the problems ya self
Cause when love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is the problem
Money can't solve it
When love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is ya problem
No man can solve it
Now do you
You can look back at all the shit you've done
To her loves a jail so so so so so she stays on the run
You give her money
She wants love
You give her love
Shes back at money
She'll run from man to man
Makin plans to plan
No secret ya'll know who we talkin' bout
Cause when love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is the problem
Money can't solve it
When love is ya problem
Nothin can solve it
When love is ya problem
No man can solve it
Oh nothing
Solve it solve it
Uh ohhh
Solve it solve it solve it
Uh ohhh
I wonder if you'll ever take the responsibility of what you already done
All the time you figure out that shes not the one three years have went by nigga you done
No no no no no
You done [Repeat x12]
You can have her back
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