"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.
Look at me stressing and things
Worrying about what I cannot fix
Allowing my troubles to take over
Getting my own needle and thread
Forcing the stitch
But it don't make my dress no prettier
I just seem to make things more confused
I have to just stop and go to the maker
And worry about nothing not even my shoes
I'm so much prettier when I let it go, let it go
I'm just so beautiful when I let it go, let it go
I'm just, I'm so much prettier
When I let it go, let it go, I'm so beautiful
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
Look at me, trying to fix everything
My sister's situations,
My brother's aggravations
But it ain't for me to fix
They gotta do it on their own
I hope to inspire it, I been busy
Holding in both my hands what cannot be held
When you told me to give it to you
Who cannot be seen, but surely felt
I'm so beautiful when I let it go, let it go
I'm so much prettier yeah yeah
I'm so, I'm so much prettier
When I let it go, when I let it go
I'm so beautiful when I let it go, when I let it go
I'm so much beautifuler that ain't no word
But it's okay you get the message anyway
I'm so much, I'm so much more beautiful
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
I'm so much prettier
When I let it, let it let it let let let it go slow
So, so much prettier
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
I'm so much more beautiful
When I let it go, let it, let it, let it go
Let it go, let it go go go go go
I'm so much more
I am so much more, more, more, more
Hey hey I'm so much, much more when I let it go
And I am with your flow
Worrying about what I cannot fix
Allowing my troubles to take over
Getting my own needle and thread
Forcing the stitch
But it don't make my dress no prettier
I just seem to make things more confused
I have to just stop and go to the maker
And worry about nothing not even my shoes
I'm so much prettier when I let it go, let it go
I'm just so beautiful when I let it go, let it go
I'm just, I'm so much prettier
When I let it go, let it go, I'm so beautiful
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
Look at me, trying to fix everything
My sister's situations,
My brother's aggravations
But it ain't for me to fix
They gotta do it on their own
I hope to inspire it, I been busy
Holding in both my hands what cannot be held
When you told me to give it to you
Who cannot be seen, but surely felt
I'm so beautiful when I let it go, let it go
I'm so much prettier yeah yeah
I'm so, I'm so much prettier
When I let it go, when I let it go
I'm so beautiful when I let it go, when I let it go
I'm so much beautifuler that ain't no word
But it's okay you get the message anyway
I'm so much, I'm so much more beautiful
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
I'm so much prettier
When I let it, let it let it let let let it go slow
So, so much prettier
When I let it go, let it go, let it go
I'm so much more beautiful
When I let it go, let it, let it, let it go
Let it go, let it go go go go go
I'm so much more
I am so much more, more, more, more
Hey hey I'm so much, much more when I let it go
And I am with your flow
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I'm Prettier Lyrics as written by Pete Kuzma Jill H. Scott
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