"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.
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
The best view from this window
Still looks like hell
And the fists they fall like rain
I know it just a little too well
Angel I've been beaten
Angel I'm a whore
I'm just a little bit older
Just a little less more and more
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
It's too long that I've stayed here
Too long that I've tried
Angel I'm so naked
I can't look you in the eye
Oh angel I'm exhausted
I think I'm a lie
I don't know how I got here
I just can't figure out why
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
In twenty-five years I'm silver
And in fifty gold
Angel I just can't imagine
What it's like to grow old
Angel there's no time left
Won't you give me strength
To meet you in a different life
To see you when this ends
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
The best view from this window
Still looks like hell
And the fists they fall like rain
I know it just a little too well
Angel I've been beaten
Angel I'm a whore
I'm just a little bit older
Just a little less more and more
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
The best view from this window
Still looks like hell
And the fists they fall like rain
I know it just a little too well
Angel I've been beaten
Angel I'm a whore
I'm just a little bit older
Just a little less more and more
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
It's too long that I've stayed here
Too long that I've tried
Angel I'm so naked
I can't look you in the eye
Oh angel I'm exhausted
I think I'm a lie
I don't know how I got here
I just can't figure out why
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
In twenty-five years I'm silver
And in fifty gold
Angel I just can't imagine
What it's like to grow old
Angel there's no time left
Won't you give me strength
To meet you in a different life
To see you when this ends
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
Shut off and curl up
If it hurts push harder
The best view from this window
Still looks like hell
And the fists they fall like rain
I know it just a little too well
Angel I've been beaten
Angel I'm a whore
I'm just a little bit older
Just a little less more and more
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Shut Off/Curl Up Lyrics as written by Margaret Fiedler Guy William Fixsen
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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