"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.
Heartache number nine - heartache number nine -
You look like a dream
But it's obscence the way you play your game.
You treat them like a number without a name.
Lovers used
Their hearts abused
I'm gone without a trace.
Don't you know it's time to mend your ways?
Don't want to be heartache number nine -
I'm not gonna play that part.
I'm gonna be the one to change your mind
You're never gonna break my heart.
When I'm down I'll be the only one
I'll never be known as heartache number nine.
One to three were way before me
And four was a friend of mine -
They fail for your lies time after time.
Five and six were here and gone
They didn't last too long
And seven and eight were next in line.
Don't want to be heartache number nine - . . .
It's been eight times that love's walked in and out of your life
But it's all in the past 'cause I'm here to stay
Oh baby.
Heartache number nine - heartache number nine -
When I'm down I'll be the only one
I'll never be known as heartache number nine.
Heartache number nine - . . .
Don't want to be heartache number nine - heartache number nine.
You look like a dream
But it's obscence the way you play your game.
You treat them like a number without a name.
Lovers used
Their hearts abused
I'm gone without a trace.
Don't you know it's time to mend your ways?
Don't want to be heartache number nine -
I'm not gonna play that part.
I'm gonna be the one to change your mind
You're never gonna break my heart.
When I'm down I'll be the only one
I'll never be known as heartache number nine.
One to three were way before me
And four was a friend of mine -
They fail for your lies time after time.
Five and six were here and gone
They didn't last too long
And seven and eight were next in line.
Don't want to be heartache number nine - . . .
It's been eight times that love's walked in and out of your life
But it's all in the past 'cause I'm here to stay
Oh baby.
Heartache number nine - heartache number nine -
When I'm down I'll be the only one
I'll never be known as heartache number nine.
Heartache number nine - . . .
Don't want to be heartache number nine - heartache number nine.
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Heartache No. 9 Lyrics as written by David Grant Carl Allen Sturken
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