"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.
Hey my friend how do you do today? The suns burned out and the skies a pale shade of grey our ambitions of adventure are so calmly misinterpreted Hey my friend what should we do today? and I don't know why I still try I go around told but I do what I want Passion turns to action turns to making a few lousy bucks This careless philosophy might just be the death of me But I do what I do and you don't what you don't And I don't know why I still try
Hey buddy old pal what has been new with you? The moon is twice full but the darkness has you so blue you're expectations are overwhelming but not just for you but me too hey buddy old pal I've had it up to here with you And I don't know why I still try This modern racket rattles us around like a noisy truck It's success is just as tempting as to not give in no filthy fucks The dirty jokes are selling like gold on a rope Yes this modern racket rattles us around with no hope And I don't know why I still try
Hey buddy old pal what has been new with you? The moon is twice full but the darkness has you so blue you're expectations are overwhelming but not just for you but me too hey buddy old pal I've had it up to here with you And I don't know why I still try This modern racket rattles us around like a noisy truck It's success is just as tempting as to not give in no filthy fucks The dirty jokes are selling like gold on a rope Yes this modern racket rattles us around with no hope And I don't know why I still try
Lyrics submitted by xgoxawayx1271
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