"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, I never can say goodbye
No, I never can say goodbye
Even though the pain and heartaches
Seems to follow me wherever I go
Thought I tried and tried to hide my feelings
They always seem to show
Then you try to say you're leaving me
And I always had to say no
Tell me why (tell me why) is it so?
No, I never can say goodbye
Oh oh, never can say goodbye
Every time I think I've had enough
And start headed for the door
There's a very strange vibration
Piercing me right to the core
It says, "turn around, you fool
You know you love him more and more and more and more
(Tell me why) is it so?
I can't let you go
Never can say goodbye
I just can't let you go
Never can say goodbye, no, no, no, oh baby
Never can say goodbye
I just can't say goodbye
(Never can say goodbye) ooh
Never can say goodbye
No, no, no I
Never can say goodbye
I know all our problems
Sooner all gonna work out
But there's that same unhappy feeling
There's that anguish, there's that doubt
It's the same old dizzy hang-up
Can't live with him, can't live without
Tell me why (tell me why) is it so?
Don't wanna let you go
I never can say goodbye
Never can say goodbye, no no no
No no no, no-no-no, oh baby
I never can say goodbye
Never can say goodbye
No, I never can say goodbye
Even though the pain and heartaches
Seems to follow me wherever I go
Thought I tried and tried to hide my feelings
They always seem to show
Then you try to say you're leaving me
And I always had to say no
Tell me why (tell me why) is it so?
No, I never can say goodbye
Oh oh, never can say goodbye
Every time I think I've had enough
And start headed for the door
There's a very strange vibration
Piercing me right to the core
It says, "turn around, you fool
You know you love him more and more and more and more
(Tell me why) is it so?
I can't let you go
Never can say goodbye
I just can't let you go
Never can say goodbye, no, no, no, oh baby
Never can say goodbye
I just can't say goodbye
(Never can say goodbye) ooh
Never can say goodbye
No, no, no I
Never can say goodbye
I know all our problems
Sooner all gonna work out
But there's that same unhappy feeling
There's that anguish, there's that doubt
It's the same old dizzy hang-up
Can't live with him, can't live without
Tell me why (tell me why) is it so?
Don't wanna let you go
I never can say goodbye
Never can say goodbye, no no no
No no no, no-no-no, oh baby
I never can say goodbye
Never can say goodbye
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