"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.
Knackelflerg, that little word
It says what you meant to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
The silly way you hold my klarg
When I'm alone with only you
The way you touch this foolish heart
They way you do the things you try
Knackelflerg, that tiny word
It says what you mean to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
I've heard a thousand times before
That love is always playing games
But when I see that boop of yours
You set my eyebrows up in flames
Knackelflerg, that tiny word
It says what you mean to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
One more, fella's
Knackelflerg
It says what you meant to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
The silly way you hold my klarg
When I'm alone with only you
The way you touch this foolish heart
They way you do the things you try
Knackelflerg, that tiny word
It says what you mean to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
I've heard a thousand times before
That love is always playing games
But when I see that boop of yours
You set my eyebrows up in flames
Knackelflerg, that tiny word
It says what you mean to me
You've been awfully fine
Knackelflerg, I've never heard
A word that says more, for sure
And you're only mine
One more, fella's
Knackelflerg
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