"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.
Get the reaction
Get it right now
Find a direction
Get it right now
Make a connection
Get it right now
No satisfaction
Get it right now
With the speed of a sound
I'm gonna pick you up baby
Throw you over my shoulder
Take you away, I'm gonna carry you home to Carolina
Away to southern Carolina
And then I'll never let you go
So many people want to leave
I don't know why they don't just go
Let's get out of here
I want to carry you home to Carolina
Away to Southern Carolina
And then I'll never let you go
Do run run run run
Get it right now
Find a direction
Get it right now
Make a connection
Get it right now
No satisfaction
Get it right now
With the speed of a sound
I'm gonna pick you up baby
Throw you over my shoulder
Take you away, I'm gonna carry you home to Carolina
Away to southern Carolina
And then I'll never let you go
So many people want to leave
I don't know why they don't just go
Let's get out of here
I want to carry you home to Carolina
Away to Southern Carolina
And then I'll never let you go
Do run run run run
Lyrics submitted by nugl
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