"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.
She's up in the sky
She's up in the domes
She's up in the sky, up in the dome
I knew a girl who came from Villa-Luz
Had a house filled with
Religious regret and infinite debt,
Heaven's pressure
She's a light in the dark
She's out of the door
She's up in the sky, up in the domes
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We make each other
You won't get more
You won't get more
We make each other
You won't get more
She's up in the sky and the sky is on fire
She set the whole neighborhood to life
Then the people they'll read out all their names
Run away, run away, run away
And with victory the whole world will be ours
We will build nothing in it
Nothing in it
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We could make other
You won't get more
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We made each other
You won't get more
Alabaster lover
We made each other
She's up in the domes
She's up in the sky, up in the dome
I knew a girl who came from Villa-Luz
Had a house filled with
Religious regret and infinite debt,
Heaven's pressure
She's a light in the dark
She's out of the door
She's up in the sky, up in the domes
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We make each other
You won't get more
You won't get more
We make each other
You won't get more
She's up in the sky and the sky is on fire
She set the whole neighborhood to life
Then the people they'll read out all their names
Run away, run away, run away
And with victory the whole world will be ours
We will build nothing in it
Nothing in it
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We could make other
You won't get more
Alabaster lover
You won't get more
We made each other
You won't get more
Alabaster lover
We made each other
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