"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 can't stop people from talking
And they're talking, my dear
And the things they're saying
Fill my heart with fear
Now I could never believe them
When they say you're untrue
I know that they're mistaken
Still I want to hear it from you
Say it isn't so, say it isn't so
Ev'ryone is saying you don't love me
Say it isn't so
Ev'rywhere I go, ev'ryone I know
Whispers that you're growing tired of me
Say it isn't so
People say that you found somebody new
And it won't be long before you leave me
Say it isn't true
Say that ev'rything is still okay
That's all I want to know
And what they're saying
Say it isn't so
And they're talking, my dear
And the things they're saying
Fill my heart with fear
Now I could never believe them
When they say you're untrue
I know that they're mistaken
Still I want to hear it from you
Say it isn't so, say it isn't so
Ev'ryone is saying you don't love me
Say it isn't so
Ev'rywhere I go, ev'ryone I know
Whispers that you're growing tired of me
Say it isn't so
People say that you found somebody new
And it won't be long before you leave me
Say it isn't true
Say that ev'rything is still okay
That's all I want to know
And what they're saying
Say it isn't so
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Say It Isn't So Lyrics as written by Irving Berlin
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