"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.
Well, the morning that I met you baby, I could feel the heat
My blood started fallin' from my head down to my feet
You started a fire way deep down in my soul, baby in my soul
Now, this love is burnin', burnin' out of control
[Incomprehensible] and touch like this
You're melting me like butter with that sizzling kiss
With your arms around me, I ain't never cold, baby never cold
'Cause this love is burnin', burnin' out of control
We got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
[Incomprehensible] man in this heart stone
I'll never be the same, baby, you'll never be alone
Well, I mean what I'm saying, I ain't blowin' no smoke, ain't blowin' smoke
This time love is burnin', burnin' out of control
Got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
We got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
My blood started fallin' from my head down to my feet
You started a fire way deep down in my soul, baby in my soul
Now, this love is burnin', burnin' out of control
[Incomprehensible] and touch like this
You're melting me like butter with that sizzling kiss
With your arms around me, I ain't never cold, baby never cold
'Cause this love is burnin', burnin' out of control
We got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
[Incomprehensible] man in this heart stone
I'll never be the same, baby, you'll never be alone
Well, I mean what I'm saying, I ain't blowin' no smoke, ain't blowin' smoke
This time love is burnin', burnin' out of control
Got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
We got a red hot love with a blue tipped flame
We could not drown this fire in a hurricane
Well, I got the fever and I can't get enough
Somebody take my temperature, I think I'm burnin' up
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