"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.
You're doing me wrong
Leading me on
I can see there's no need for me
So I'm gonna have to set you free
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
Every time I wanted you around
You were nowhere to be found
The price I pay to love you
Is too much to bear
And it's unfair when you don't really care
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
I tried so hard to make you happy with me
But now I see our love could never be
I can't deny I'm still in love with you
But this is it, I'm callin' it quits
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
There's no sense in the both of us
Making each other blue
There's no sense in the both of us
Making each other blue
Leading me on
I can see there's no need for me
So I'm gonna have to set you free
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
Every time I wanted you around
You were nowhere to be found
The price I pay to love you
Is too much to bear
And it's unfair when you don't really care
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
I tried so hard to make you happy with me
But now I see our love could never be
I can't deny I'm still in love with you
But this is it, I'm callin' it quits
I'm giving you your freedom
To find somebody new
There's no sense in both of us
Making each other blue
There's no sense in the both of us
Making each other blue
There's no sense in the both of us
Making each other blue
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I'm Giving You Your Freedom Lyrics as written by Brian Holland Jr.
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