"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.
Have you heard that people talk about you
Like you're art?
They say you're coming along nicely
But you've still got a ways to go
They never fail to ask me how you are
But they only listen for the things that already know
Oh, but I know, and you know that
Chorus:
If you give them one they'll take ninety-
Nine percent of all you have to give
But that's if you let them
They stand for peace, but they'll keep fighting
I'm not sure what all the fighting's for
But you know they are winning
They're winning
They're winning
They're winning a losing war
I found an asteroid the other day
In my yard
I picked it up and I figured I would give it you
But in a flash the people came from very far
To search it over for some kind of owners to sue
And I'm telling you
Chorus
Bridge:
They sell guns and they sell nature
They sell God and spread him on their TV screens
Oh but if there's something I could learn to do
I'm gonna try to wrap it up in words for you
Chorus
As written by ReinaDelCid on YouTube
Like you're art?
They say you're coming along nicely
But you've still got a ways to go
They never fail to ask me how you are
But they only listen for the things that already know
Oh, but I know, and you know that
Chorus:
If you give them one they'll take ninety-
Nine percent of all you have to give
But that's if you let them
They stand for peace, but they'll keep fighting
I'm not sure what all the fighting's for
But you know they are winning
They're winning
They're winning
They're winning a losing war
I found an asteroid the other day
In my yard
I picked it up and I figured I would give it you
But in a flash the people came from very far
To search it over for some kind of owners to sue
And I'm telling you
Chorus
Bridge:
They sell guns and they sell nature
They sell God and spread him on their TV screens
Oh but if there's something I could learn to do
I'm gonna try to wrap it up in words for you
Chorus
As written by ReinaDelCid on YouTube
Lyrics submitted by luciferhades
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