"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.
Feels like the end
When you're closer to losing your dreams
Than losing a friend
Flying blind
I'm shooting into the dark
Who will I find?
Oh girl
And if it takes me a lifetime
I swear I'll tear down every wall
Love conquers all
On my way
Tomorrow I rise with the sun
Soon I'll be gone
Words can't say
How the memories of feelings of love
They linger on
Oh girl
And if it takes me forever
I know it's worth every teardrop that falls
Love conquers all
Somewhere there's a place in your heart
Where the wounds never heal
Well you're not alone
That's just how I feel
Love conquers all
This one will last a lifetime
And if love conquers all
This one will last forever
When you're closer to losing your dreams
Than losing a friend
Flying blind
I'm shooting into the dark
Who will I find?
Oh girl
And if it takes me a lifetime
I swear I'll tear down every wall
Love conquers all
On my way
Tomorrow I rise with the sun
Soon I'll be gone
Words can't say
How the memories of feelings of love
They linger on
Oh girl
And if it takes me forever
I know it's worth every teardrop that falls
Love conquers all
Somewhere there's a place in your heart
Where the wounds never heal
Well you're not alone
That's just how I feel
Love conquers all
This one will last a lifetime
And if love conquers all
This one will last forever
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This one is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I believe it's about finding love, trying to save that love and sometimes inevitably losing it. But there's always a wound left unhealed, like a scar, reminding you of that love and for some people there are just too many of these scars.
@gtet579 I partly disagree with you. Truly the very beginning of the song is very sad, as it precisely describes the utter desperation of a person losing his ( in this case) love. Not only a lover herself but faith in love, in unity of souls, complete mutual understanding, compassion etc. LOSING YOUR DREAM. But I imagine a guy who after some period of sadness met a new love, a girl in the course of her of life having come accross the same loss of her dreams. And he's trying to overcome her pain and distrust persuading her in the power of his love: that he'll be the one who will never let her dreams die. That's why the song is ended on an optimistic note:<br /> Love conquers all, THIS ONE ( new one) will last a lifetime<br /> And if love conquers all<br /> THIS ONE will last forever.<br /> <br /> In fact in my opinion this one is the best PURPLE's love song ( with perhaps SOLDIER OF FORTUNE only close to) from my favourite album of the band.