"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.
See the funny little clown
See him laughin' as you walk by
Everybody thinks he's happy
'Cause you never see a tear in his eye
No one knows he's cryin'
No one knows he's dyin' on the inside
'Cause he's laughin' on the outside
Mm no one knows, no one knows
See the funny little clown
He's hidin' behind a smile
They all think he's laughin'
But I know he's really cryin' all the while
How his heart is achin'
How his heart is breakin' on the inside
But he keeps laughin' on the outside
Mm no one knows, no one knows
This funny little clown
You never used to see him around
Without his girl beside him
To love and guide him
Until one day his girl just walked away
And to this very day he says he never loved her anyway
Mm and no one knows (No one knows) except for me (No one knows)
Because you see (No one knows)
I'm the funny little clown
See the funny little clown
See him laughin' as you walk by
Everybody thinks he's happy
'Cause you never see a tear in his eye
No one knows he's cryin'
No one knows he's dyin' on the inside
'Cause he's laughin' on the outside
Mm no one knows, no one knows
See the funny little clown
He's hidin' behind a smile
They all think he's laughin'
But I know he's really cryin' all the while
How his heart is achin'
How his heart is breakin' on the inside
But he keeps laughin' on the outside
Mm no one knows, no one knows
This funny little clown
You never used to see him around
Without his girl beside him
To love and guide him
Until one day his girl just walked away
And to this very day he says he never loved her anyway
Mm and no one knows (No one knows) except for me (No one knows)
Because you see (No one knows)
I'm the funny little clown
See the funny little clown
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