"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.
Well at least can't you
Look at me when I'm speaking to you?
Because there are things I've got to say
Well what was he sneaking to you
When you thought I'd looked away?
I get it, I get it
Now I understand just what you're playing
I get it, I get it
I guess there isn't any point delaying
You would rather that I wasn't here
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
You bought him presents with my money
That makes me feel just great, although
I've got to say that it is kind of funny
That you could think I'd never know
I get it, I get it
It was just another way of saying
I get it, I get it
That you really didn't want me staying
Oh I bet you just wish that I'd disappear
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
Lying in my bed
You remember when
It was you who said
That we'd never be apart again
But now the longer that I hang around
The more anxious that you get
Oh it looks like Romeo has found
A nervous Juliet
Because you would rather that I wasn't here
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
Oh I bet you just wish that I'd disappear
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
Look at me when I'm speaking to you?
Because there are things I've got to say
Well what was he sneaking to you
When you thought I'd looked away?
I get it, I get it
Now I understand just what you're playing
I get it, I get it
I guess there isn't any point delaying
You would rather that I wasn't here
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
You bought him presents with my money
That makes me feel just great, although
I've got to say that it is kind of funny
That you could think I'd never know
I get it, I get it
It was just another way of saying
I get it, I get it
That you really didn't want me staying
Oh I bet you just wish that I'd disappear
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
Lying in my bed
You remember when
It was you who said
That we'd never be apart again
But now the longer that I hang around
The more anxious that you get
Oh it looks like Romeo has found
A nervous Juliet
Because you would rather that I wasn't here
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
Oh I bet you just wish that I'd disappear
You don't have to say a word, it's crystal clear
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