"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.
I can see your perfect world
Trying to keep it alive
I don't know if I've been there before
But of that place I've dreamt for sure
I can see you
And your white window
Your hands heading to
I can't let go
I can't let go
And I want to be that for sure
You'll never see me falling down
And I can't live in the moment
I can feel it
I gave my life away
So yours will be the best one
I know why I've been there before
'Cause I'm not alone anymore
I can't let go
I can't let go
And I want to be that for sure
You'll never see me falling down
And I can't live in the moment
I can feel it
Consider me alive [x5]
Consider
Trying to keep it alive
I don't know if I've been there before
But of that place I've dreamt for sure
I can see you
And your white window
Your hands heading to
I can't let go
I can't let go
And I want to be that for sure
You'll never see me falling down
And I can't live in the moment
I can feel it
I gave my life away
So yours will be the best one
I know why I've been there before
'Cause I'm not alone anymore
I can't let go
I can't let go
And I want to be that for sure
You'll never see me falling down
And I can't live in the moment
I can feel it
Consider me alive [x5]
Consider
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