"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.
On the isle of Filla Lilla out Hawaii way
A hula maiden gay strolled by on moonlit bay
There came to court her over the water from a savage Zinga Zululand
A bolo chief-tain grand sang her this lay
And he sang hula Hawaii hula smile on your zing gang a zula
Moonshine above on our sweet jungle love
For you my bolo is swinging for you my love song I'm singing
Come be my hula hula love
[ steel ]
But the chief-tain from the peaceful Filla Lilla land
Would not give him her hand her love took his stand
Through the rattle of the battle as she heard his sweet voice calm and true
They fled in his canoe o'er waters blue
And he sang hula...
And he sang hula...
Hula love hula love hula love
A hula maiden gay strolled by on moonlit bay
There came to court her over the water from a savage Zinga Zululand
A bolo chief-tain grand sang her this lay
And he sang hula Hawaii hula smile on your zing gang a zula
Moonshine above on our sweet jungle love
For you my bolo is swinging for you my love song I'm singing
Come be my hula hula love
[ steel ]
But the chief-tain from the peaceful Filla Lilla land
Would not give him her hand her love took his stand
Through the rattle of the battle as she heard his sweet voice calm and true
They fled in his canoe o'er waters blue
And he sang hula...
And he sang hula...
Hula love hula love hula love
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