"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.
Saw my smile as she turned around
Thought she lost something I had found
I said believe we're both the same
She said honey I can't play that game
Either way I'm a loveless man
Either way she said, I'm an evil, man
I took her home to my welcome bed
Asked me what it was she'd been fed
Got that hunger and she's got that fight
Left her lonely in morning light
Let everybody talk about me,
Everybody gonna talk about me
Everybody's talking about me, let them talk
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she said
I should examine my head
She proclaimed that she did not choose
Looked like her reflections been misused
Heads been spinning and her body aches
Blame that pill she chose to take
Nobody gonna' stand beside her
Nobody gonna' sympathize,
Nobody gonna sympathize now
Sympathy
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
I understand what she said
I'm and evil man, I am evil
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Got that hunger do you, got that hunger do you
Got that hunger do you
Got that hunger
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she says
I am evil (I am an evil man)
There's so much going on in my head
She just cannot comprehend (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she says
I'm an evil man
I am evil
Thought she lost something I had found
I said believe we're both the same
She said honey I can't play that game
Either way I'm a loveless man
Either way she said, I'm an evil, man
I took her home to my welcome bed
Asked me what it was she'd been fed
Got that hunger and she's got that fight
Left her lonely in morning light
Let everybody talk about me,
Everybody gonna talk about me
Everybody's talking about me, let them talk
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she said
I should examine my head
She proclaimed that she did not choose
Looked like her reflections been misused
Heads been spinning and her body aches
Blame that pill she chose to take
Nobody gonna' stand beside her
Nobody gonna' sympathize,
Nobody gonna sympathize now
Sympathy
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
I understand what she said
I'm and evil man, I am evil
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Got that hunger do you, got that hunger do you
Got that hunger do you
Got that hunger
I'm an evil man (I am an evil man)
She'll never let me forget
I'm out to get what I can get (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she says
I am evil (I am an evil man)
There's so much going on in my head
She just cannot comprehend (I am an evil man)
And I understand what she says
I'm an evil man
I am evil
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