"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.
Are you depraved, or are you deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
Are you depraved, or are you deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave
Are you ashamed, that you were deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
Are you ashamed, that you were deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
About you, about you
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
Are you depraved, or are you deceived? (don't feel, chained up)
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please (don't feel, chained up)
Are you depraved, or are you deceived? (don't feel, chained up)
Excuses aside, stop saying please (don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name
About you, about you, about you
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
Are you depraved, or are you deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave
Are you ashamed, that you were deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
Are you ashamed, that you were deceived?
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave, so get off your knees
You're not a slave
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
About you, about you
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
Are you depraved, or are you deceived? (don't feel, chained up)
Excuses aside, stop saying please, please (don't feel, chained up)
Are you depraved, or are you deceived? (don't feel, chained up)
Excuses aside, stop saying please (don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
(Don't feel, chained up)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name (someone tell me your name)
Someone tell me your name
Someone tell me your name
About you, about you, about you
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