"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 know it
And I know it
Gonna be a star
You won't, you won't
Get me very far
Don't say hello
It's already time to go
Oh, the wind is carrying me home, me home, me home again
We all know it
And I know it
Gonna be a star
You won't, you won't
Get me very far
You saw life
Back in the countryside
Ah
Oh, my soul, rise up and go
Beyond, beyond
To what you know
And I know it
Gonna be a star
You won't, you won't
Get me very far
Don't say hello
It's already time to go
Oh, the wind is carrying me home, me home, me home again
We all know it
And I know it
Gonna be a star
You won't, you won't
Get me very far
You saw life
Back in the countryside
Ah
Oh, my soul, rise up and go
Beyond, beyond
To what you know
Lyrics submitted by mister care-too-much, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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