"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.
Everybody asks me if I still love you and if you're still on my mind
They ask me to tell about my broken heart and I tell 'em that I'm feelin' fine
So I lie a little bit and I proudly say our book of love is closed
And your memory never bothers me and when it does it comes and goes
It comes and goes all right it comes every morning and it goes all night
I save a lotta pride and I haven't really lied
I tell 'em that it comes and goes
Everybody asks me if I cried when you left me and if I've cried for you since
They ask me to tell so they can all get together and laugh it up at my expense
So I lie a little bit and I proudly say not one teardrop flows
If there is a little pain it's not a constant thing it kinda just comes and goes
It comes and goes all right it comes every morning and it goes all night
I save a lot of pride and I haven't really lied
I tell 'em that it comes and goes.
They ask me to tell about my broken heart and I tell 'em that I'm feelin' fine
So I lie a little bit and I proudly say our book of love is closed
And your memory never bothers me and when it does it comes and goes
It comes and goes all right it comes every morning and it goes all night
I save a lotta pride and I haven't really lied
I tell 'em that it comes and goes
Everybody asks me if I cried when you left me and if I've cried for you since
They ask me to tell so they can all get together and laugh it up at my expense
So I lie a little bit and I proudly say not one teardrop flows
If there is a little pain it's not a constant thing it kinda just comes and goes
It comes and goes all right it comes every morning and it goes all night
I save a lot of pride and I haven't really lied
I tell 'em that it comes and goes.
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