"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.
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
I came across a Norman Rockwell
In a faded magazine
And the pictures on the page
Brought to mind familiar faces
I think everybody knows the kind I mean
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
The gentle folks at home
Yours and mine
This ones for the good ole boys
That I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
They are an easy going people
Though they are hard set in their ways
And they do not take the chance
Even though the times are changing
'Cause they just can't get above them good ole days
And this a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody knows one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys
That I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Those Jesus hearted people treated me
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
How I love those Jesus hearted people
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody's known one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
And I love the way them Jesus hearted people people treated me
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody's known one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
I came across a Norman Rockwell
In a faded magazine
And the pictures on the page
Brought to mind familiar faces
I think everybody knows the kind I mean
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
The gentle folks at home
Yours and mine
This ones for the good ole boys
That I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
They are an easy going people
Though they are hard set in their ways
And they do not take the chance
Even though the times are changing
'Cause they just can't get above them good ole days
And this a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody knows one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys
That I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Those Jesus hearted people treated me
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
How I love those Jesus hearted people
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody's known one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
And I love the way them Jesus hearted people people treated me
This is a song for those Jesus hearted people
Everybody's known one or two
Haven't you
This ones for the good ole boys I'd give the world to see
This ones for the way
Them Jesus hearted people treated me
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