"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.
Fawn, it's not wrong
It's enough to know you're there
It's enough to reach into the dark
And pull nothing back
Don't let the daylights paralyze
You can run back to the words
You can live among the deer
You know you are good
Soon is the spring
With the grass becoming green
With the hope for everything
Waiting to happen
Grey disappears
We grow way beyond our fear
I forget how hard it once was
To be breathing
I am making my way through the woods each day
Trying to get further
Oh Virginia is fine
But you won't be mine
I'm a sleeper
To familiar trees
Took a wilder leaves
I will be there
Now that we're ghosts
That go driving in the night
We will fade away with sea
Till no one is there
No more hands in the fringe
No more nervous laughing looks
No more wonder in the way things might have been
I am making my mark in the tree stump's bark to remember
You have done nothing wrong
Maybe wind was too strong
Which was more than fair
If you want goodbye
You can have your goodbye
I will not be there
Fawn, it's not wrong
It's enough to know you're there
You can live among the deer
You know you are good
If you change your mind
And don't learn to drive
I will be there
If the world gets cold
And you've got no stove
I will be there
Under the stars at night
Giving both of us light
I will be there
It's enough to know you're there
It's enough to reach into the dark
And pull nothing back
Don't let the daylights paralyze
You can run back to the words
You can live among the deer
You know you are good
Soon is the spring
With the grass becoming green
With the hope for everything
Waiting to happen
Grey disappears
We grow way beyond our fear
I forget how hard it once was
To be breathing
I am making my way through the woods each day
Trying to get further
Oh Virginia is fine
But you won't be mine
I'm a sleeper
To familiar trees
Took a wilder leaves
I will be there
Now that we're ghosts
That go driving in the night
We will fade away with sea
Till no one is there
No more hands in the fringe
No more nervous laughing looks
No more wonder in the way things might have been
I am making my mark in the tree stump's bark to remember
You have done nothing wrong
Maybe wind was too strong
Which was more than fair
If you want goodbye
You can have your goodbye
I will not be there
Fawn, it's not wrong
It's enough to know you're there
You can live among the deer
You know you are good
If you change your mind
And don't learn to drive
I will be there
If the world gets cold
And you've got no stove
I will be there
Under the stars at night
Giving both of us light
I will be there
Lyrics submitted by nohitter151
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I hear, "Oh, Virginia is fine / but she won't be mine / I must leave her."
"If you change your mind, and don't mind the drive." Man, these lyrics are so wrong! The song is so good, though.