"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.
We sure looked good on paper
â??Til we read between the lines
It always hurts when you find
You're running out of â??latersâ?? and â??maybe next timesâ??
When you can almost read her mind
She likes the romance, the slow dance
Staying out all night
She likes the Christmas lights all year round
Why put â??em up, take â??em down
She watches baseball, hates the mall
And hangs out with â??the guysâ??
That's what I know about what she likes
About what she likes
She's all about the rainbow
But not the one on Sunset Boulevard
I got it wrong, she took it hard
And it really hurts to let go when you're so close
To making it so far
I should have known that I
Never could have known that I
Could ever know enough about her to keep her mine
She likes the romance, the slow dance
It keeps me up all night
She likes the Christmas lights all year round
And I just took â??em down
She watches baseball, hates the mall
And now I realize
What the hell do I know about what she likes
â??Til we read between the lines
It always hurts when you find
You're running out of â??latersâ?? and â??maybe next timesâ??
When you can almost read her mind
She likes the romance, the slow dance
Staying out all night
She likes the Christmas lights all year round
Why put â??em up, take â??em down
She watches baseball, hates the mall
And hangs out with â??the guysâ??
That's what I know about what she likes
About what she likes
She's all about the rainbow
But not the one on Sunset Boulevard
I got it wrong, she took it hard
And it really hurts to let go when you're so close
To making it so far
I should have known that I
Never could have known that I
Could ever know enough about her to keep her mine
She likes the romance, the slow dance
It keeps me up all night
She likes the Christmas lights all year round
And I just took â??em down
She watches baseball, hates the mall
And now I realize
What the hell do I know about what she likes
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