"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.
Oh lord, it's pulling me down
Oh darling, how weak this crown
Do you fail to understand
What is heartily now, what's in your hands
Oh creature, oh love, strained now
Till we get enough I ain't afraid no more
As they batter down the door.
Who you are and what you say
You've built it up some other way
Isn't that a crime, these tears divine
Love you tear me up sometimes and
Oh darling, you and me, stuck on time as we see
The outside world fade away till the dark,
The dark of the day.
And who you are and what you say
What does it mean now anyway?
Throw off your crown, tread me down
Oh baby, stop all feelings now
Oh, we're worlds apart
Helpless as we are
You and I walk on by
Our little love will die.
Still walking the bridge to God, thinking things
That I can not relate this to, what you say
Bricks are falling down this day
Oh darling, the weeks to come ain't nothing
But the sound of your drum
You can stay or walk away
As I, I long to say
Who you are and what you say
Babe, we've lost now anyway isn't that a crime,
These tears divine
A river 'round your waist sometimes.
And stuck in tears as we've gone too far
Babe you've built a wall that's hard
Getting through, getting through to you
Who you are and what you say
Held down anyway. Oh darling, fear brought us here
Ooh, hey, Hold hands she don't want me tied
Her hand still stuck in mine.
Baby, I long to see
Oh, hey you, my tears won't mend
Until the end.
Oh darling, how weak this crown
Do you fail to understand
What is heartily now, what's in your hands
Oh creature, oh love, strained now
Till we get enough I ain't afraid no more
As they batter down the door.
Who you are and what you say
You've built it up some other way
Isn't that a crime, these tears divine
Love you tear me up sometimes and
Oh darling, you and me, stuck on time as we see
The outside world fade away till the dark,
The dark of the day.
And who you are and what you say
What does it mean now anyway?
Throw off your crown, tread me down
Oh baby, stop all feelings now
Oh, we're worlds apart
Helpless as we are
You and I walk on by
Our little love will die.
Still walking the bridge to God, thinking things
That I can not relate this to, what you say
Bricks are falling down this day
Oh darling, the weeks to come ain't nothing
But the sound of your drum
You can stay or walk away
As I, I long to say
Who you are and what you say
Babe, we've lost now anyway isn't that a crime,
These tears divine
A river 'round your waist sometimes.
And stuck in tears as we've gone too far
Babe you've built a wall that's hard
Getting through, getting through to you
Who you are and what you say
Held down anyway. Oh darling, fear brought us here
Ooh, hey, Hold hands she don't want me tied
Her hand still stuck in mine.
Baby, I long to see
Oh, hey you, my tears won't mend
Until the end.
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