"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.
Try in vain to convince me, but I never felt as lonely as I do
Now I finally see that all the things I loved are so empty without you
When I dream you caress me, why it touches me like it never did before?
Though I pictured it painful - now there's no return and it hurts me so much more
And it hurts me so much more ...
And it hurts me so much more
When the darkness surrounds me in an endless stream of memories all alone
Even harder to wake up and to find that all I lived for now has gone
Used to bring you just sorrows now I get them back and I cannot fight at all
In those moments of weakness have to think of you and it hurts me so much
It hurts me so much
Still miss you, still feel you, still leave you and then have to part from you again
Still see you, still weep for you still hear your whisper in my ear again
I could not even tell you how I need you so I'll keep it in my heart
Now I finally see that all the things I loved are so empty without you
When I dream you caress me, why it touches me like it never did before?
Though I pictured it painful - now there's no return and it hurts me so much more
And it hurts me so much more ...
And it hurts me so much more
When the darkness surrounds me in an endless stream of memories all alone
Even harder to wake up and to find that all I lived for now has gone
Used to bring you just sorrows now I get them back and I cannot fight at all
In those moments of weakness have to think of you and it hurts me so much
It hurts me so much
Still miss you, still feel you, still leave you and then have to part from you again
Still see you, still weep for you still hear your whisper in my ear again
I could not even tell you how I need you so I'll keep it in my heart
Lyrics submitted by NickBush24
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