"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.
Like water wears away a stone,
Time gently erodes memories
And when love's been replaced
By a bitter aftertaste
It's hard to recall
Just what started it all
But
I remembered what I thought I'd forgotten
When I saw you again today
I resisted and I can be stubborn
But my resistance just crumbled away
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Days turned to years and went by
And my tears eventually dried
But the salt that remained
Made me thirsty again
Well, nobody's all bad
And I couldn't stay mad
When I remembered what I thought I'd forgotten
When I saw you again today
I resisted and I can be stubborn
But my resistance just crumbled away
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Oh, sweetness, it's madness
To start this all again
But when we kiss
I'll gladly let them come and certify me insane, oh
I remembered that heatwave summer
We were practically kids
You persisted and I surrendered
And we were glad when I finally did
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Falling backwards,
Falling backwards,
Falling backwards,
Into your arms again
Time gently erodes memories
And when love's been replaced
By a bitter aftertaste
It's hard to recall
Just what started it all
But
I remembered what I thought I'd forgotten
When I saw you again today
I resisted and I can be stubborn
But my resistance just crumbled away
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Days turned to years and went by
And my tears eventually dried
But the salt that remained
Made me thirsty again
Well, nobody's all bad
And I couldn't stay mad
When I remembered what I thought I'd forgotten
When I saw you again today
I resisted and I can be stubborn
But my resistance just crumbled away
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Oh, sweetness, it's madness
To start this all again
But when we kiss
I'll gladly let them come and certify me insane, oh
I remembered that heatwave summer
We were practically kids
You persisted and I surrendered
And we were glad when I finally did
And now I'm falling backwards
Into your arms again
Falling backwards,
Falling backwards,
Falling backwards,
Into your arms again
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Falling Backwards Lyrics as written by Mark Edward Cascian Nevin
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