"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.
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I said when it drops, you're gonna feel it, how it's been doin' you wrong
I said when it drops, you're gonna feel it, how it's been doin' you wrong
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I said Pressure drop, whoa pressure yeah pressure's gonna drop on you
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I said when it drops you're gonna feel it, how it's been doing you wrong
I said when it drops you're gonna feel it, how it's been doing you wrong
It is you, oh yeah
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Pressure,pressure, pressure, yeah pressure's gonna drop on you
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I said pressure drop, whoa pressure drop,whoa pressure's gonna drop on you
I said when it drops you're gonna feel it, how it's been doing you wrong
I said when it drops you're gonna feel it, how it's been doing you wrong
Pressure,pressure, pressure, pressure's pressure's gonna drop on you
Pressure,pressure, pressure, pressure's pressure's gonna drop on you
Pressure, pressure, pressure's pressure's gonna drop on you
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Pressure Drop Lyrics as written by Frederick Hibbert
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