"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.
For a while I was happy for a while I had you
The thought never once crossed my mind
But you walked away with the only world I knew
And leave just a mem'ry behind
But all of the sudden it's a lonely world all of the sudden I'm alone
All of the sudden I miss you girl cause all of the sudden you're gone
I don't know what happened to dive you away
And leave all these heartaches behind
I just hope you're happy and I pray that your world
Is never as empty as mine
Cause all of the sudden
Cause all of the sudden you're gone
The thought never once crossed my mind
But you walked away with the only world I knew
And leave just a mem'ry behind
But all of the sudden it's a lonely world all of the sudden I'm alone
All of the sudden I miss you girl cause all of the sudden you're gone
I don't know what happened to dive you away
And leave all these heartaches behind
I just hope you're happy and I pray that your world
Is never as empty as mine
Cause all of the sudden
Cause all of the sudden you're gone
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All of a Sudden Lyrics as written by Price Owens
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