"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.
You won't even feel it
You don't even seem to think
The world is coming for you and you won't even blink
You say it doesn't fit you when it fits you like a glove
The end you think that you want isn't coming how you thought
I need to have you here now
I need to have you gone
You're only here without me, it's that all the things are wrong
And I have everything you want now, these eyes are just the same
I don't even want to get there cause there's nothing there to blame
You take it all lightly
You take it all like a joke
I don't really want 'em to think that you'll have everything revoked
And here's the time and we have it all, the truth is coming out
You trust in your own voice and what you feel will come out
But no one really knows you
Knows you or what you like
You're liking what you hear but it just doesn't sound right
And I know that you want it, you want it to be bold
You're calling on the people but the people have evolved
I know that you need it
I know that it is good
There's a time and place and light where everything is understood
There's a world of doubt before you, all lying on this edge
The lion's den is open and you won't even flinch
We know that you are beautiful
We know that you are true
You hold it like it's everything we ever really knew
And no one takes you anywhere
Yeah no one sees your face
Your face is frowned up like it's about to be erased
Yet no one leaves you anywhere and time heals itself
I have it all on file in the folder now
I know that it's alright now
I know that we are true
I have my thoughts behind me
And they're really quite cool
You don't even seem to think
The world is coming for you and you won't even blink
You say it doesn't fit you when it fits you like a glove
The end you think that you want isn't coming how you thought
I need to have you here now
I need to have you gone
You're only here without me, it's that all the things are wrong
And I have everything you want now, these eyes are just the same
I don't even want to get there cause there's nothing there to blame
You take it all lightly
You take it all like a joke
I don't really want 'em to think that you'll have everything revoked
And here's the time and we have it all, the truth is coming out
You trust in your own voice and what you feel will come out
But no one really knows you
Knows you or what you like
You're liking what you hear but it just doesn't sound right
And I know that you want it, you want it to be bold
You're calling on the people but the people have evolved
I know that you need it
I know that it is good
There's a time and place and light where everything is understood
There's a world of doubt before you, all lying on this edge
The lion's den is open and you won't even flinch
We know that you are beautiful
We know that you are true
You hold it like it's everything we ever really knew
And no one takes you anywhere
Yeah no one sees your face
Your face is frowned up like it's about to be erased
Yet no one leaves you anywhere and time heals itself
I have it all on file in the folder now
I know that it's alright now
I know that we are true
I have my thoughts behind me
And they're really quite cool
Lyrics submitted by ahab3
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