"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.
The water's wide
It's deep and wide
It's down a long and windy road
And everyone knows that a boy can't swim it
In Narrow's Church
The white walled church
They're singing that gospel song
"Bye and Bye, I will see my King"
The clouds will break
And the pews shake
And the choir softly cries
And it's Georgia in the spring of 1905
Ty Cobb
You're dead and gone
You had a game like a war machine
And through the great
Hall of Fame you wander
In Tigers Field
A girl in heels
She had a face like a magazine
And through the long metal stands she wandered
The ball soared
The crowd roared
The scoreboard sweetly hummed
And tomorrow you'll surely know whose won
I'm on First
And you're on Third
And all the wolves are all between
And everyone's sure that the game is over
The catcher's hard
He's mean mean and hard
And he nips at the batter's heels
And everyone's sure that the game is over
The ball soars
And the crowd roars
And the scoreboard sweetly hums
And tomorrow you'll surely know whose won
The water's wide
It's deep and wide
It's a down a long and windy road
And everyone knows that a boy can't swim it
The clouds break
And the pews shake
And the preacher's feet do pound
As the rain beats the streets of Cooperstown
It's deep and wide
It's down a long and windy road
And everyone knows that a boy can't swim it
In Narrow's Church
The white walled church
They're singing that gospel song
"Bye and Bye, I will see my King"
The clouds will break
And the pews shake
And the choir softly cries
And it's Georgia in the spring of 1905
Ty Cobb
You're dead and gone
You had a game like a war machine
And through the great
Hall of Fame you wander
In Tigers Field
A girl in heels
She had a face like a magazine
And through the long metal stands she wandered
The ball soared
The crowd roared
The scoreboard sweetly hummed
And tomorrow you'll surely know whose won
I'm on First
And you're on Third
And all the wolves are all between
And everyone's sure that the game is over
The catcher's hard
He's mean mean and hard
And he nips at the batter's heels
And everyone's sure that the game is over
The ball soars
And the crowd roars
And the scoreboard sweetly hums
And tomorrow you'll surely know whose won
The water's wide
It's deep and wide
It's a down a long and windy road
And everyone knows that a boy can't swim it
The clouds break
And the pews shake
And the preacher's feet do pound
As the rain beats the streets of Cooperstown
Lyrics submitted by Deader
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