"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.
Nothing good can ever seem to come from this so
What's it matter? from every chance I get I will
Always run I can't even try to take a shot at
Something that
I've wanted, I've known and it's something that
Has always seemed to haunt me in the end no way
Will I turn back and it's something that I needed
Something I just gotta have
Something good just has to finally come from this
So we can make it this time I won't turn my back
I'll take my shot we're gonna make it
I just can't believe that it's taken so long for
Us to finally come around decisions have been made
And I guess it's true what they say, it will be all
Right in the end
I just hope that this won't all fall apart and keep
Us waiting in the end for all our greatest dreams
To come true
Well I know that this makes me I can't believe you
Broke me down to this just to get away from me and
I just can't believe that it's taken so long for us
To finally come around, with everything that I tried
To tell you I never quite made it through to you
Let's throw away things we couldn't do
What's it matter? from every chance I get I will
Always run I can't even try to take a shot at
Something that
I've wanted, I've known and it's something that
Has always seemed to haunt me in the end no way
Will I turn back and it's something that I needed
Something I just gotta have
Something good just has to finally come from this
So we can make it this time I won't turn my back
I'll take my shot we're gonna make it
I just can't believe that it's taken so long for
Us to finally come around decisions have been made
And I guess it's true what they say, it will be all
Right in the end
I just hope that this won't all fall apart and keep
Us waiting in the end for all our greatest dreams
To come true
Well I know that this makes me I can't believe you
Broke me down to this just to get away from me and
I just can't believe that it's taken so long for us
To finally come around, with everything that I tried
To tell you I never quite made it through to you
Let's throw away things we couldn't do
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