"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.
Here he come again that man in the mask
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
Pointing with his finger and waving that lamp
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
Just when I get to thinking that I've shaken him free
Just when I get to thinking that he's gone from me
He seems to have a hold upon my soul
Here he come again that man in the mask
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
Because I've been a lot of places that I shouldn't have been
Seen a lot of faces that I shouldn't have seen
Said a lot of bad things that I really didn't mean
But they still won't let me go
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
Pointing with his finger and waving that lamp
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
Just when I get to thinking that I've shaken him free
Just when I get to thinking that he's gone from me
He seems to have a hold upon my soul
Here he come again that man in the mask
Telling me I have to go home
Telling me I have to go home again
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
Because I've been a lot of places that I shouldn't have been
Seen a lot of faces that I shouldn't have seen
Said a lot of bad things that I really didn't mean
But they still won't let me go
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
I don't want to go home
Don't want to go home no more
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