"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.
stay with me, my love
I hope you'll always be, right here by my side if ever i need you
Oh my love, in your arms i feel so safe and so secure
everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
I will follow you, will you follow me
everyday and night that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
with the dark, I see so very clearly now
all my fears are drifting by me so slowly now
fading away
if I can say the night is long, but you are near
close I am though I'm better for the smile you give and while I live
I will follow you, will you follow me
every day and night that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
I will follow you, will you follow me
everyday and night that we know will be
I will stay with, you will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
I hope you'll always be, right here by my side if ever i need you
Oh my love, in your arms i feel so safe and so secure
everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
I will follow you, will you follow me
everyday and night that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
with the dark, I see so very clearly now
all my fears are drifting by me so slowly now
fading away
if I can say the night is long, but you are near
close I am though I'm better for the smile you give and while I live
I will follow you, will you follow me
every day and night that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
I will follow you, will you follow me
everyday and night that we know will be
I will stay with, you will you stay with me
just one single tear in each passing year
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