"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.
A crowded main street
The scene was set
The checked out the view
Turned the radio on
Open the case
Assemble the gun
Laid out ready
For the President's run
The world was shocked that fateful day
A young man's life was blown away, away
In Dallas one pm
White hot lead in the back of the head
Screaming confusion
Shots ring the air
Cadillac racing
Cops on the run
They couldn't believe that the President's hit
The shooting's done
Assassins run
Is he dead?
No one will say
Around the world
The news was flashed
We sat and watched
Your tragic history
The world was shocked that fateful day
A young man's life was blown away, away
In Dallas one pm
The scene was set
The checked out the view
Turned the radio on
Open the case
Assemble the gun
Laid out ready
For the President's run
The world was shocked that fateful day
A young man's life was blown away, away
In Dallas one pm
White hot lead in the back of the head
Screaming confusion
Shots ring the air
Cadillac racing
Cops on the run
They couldn't believe that the President's hit
The shooting's done
Assassins run
Is he dead?
No one will say
Around the world
The news was flashed
We sat and watched
Your tragic history
The world was shocked that fateful day
A young man's life was blown away, away
In Dallas one pm
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Is the above the song that it should be here you idiots ???