"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.
All the trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for
You should knock them doors
You don't play no more ?
If I were you I'd pay my dues before I lose
That trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for, you shouldn't knocking doors
You don't play to walk through
If I were you I'd pay my dues.
You've got a lot of long answers
Still a lot of short questions
You've had a lot of last chances
A run o lucky guesses
They all nerves is standing
You bet it all in ? back
But if your steady hands in
Then the glass is shaking ?
I think that you're gonna find out that all you look out
That your words is not worth much here ooh
All the trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for
You should knock them doors
You don't play no more ?
If I were you I'd pay my dues before I lose
That trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for, you shouldn't knocking doors
You don't play to walk through
If I were you I'd pay my dues.
The angel on your shoulder
She hasn't say too much to stay
And it seems you're getting older
Faster than most ?
'Cause you're ? like ? no lie in just thunder
It all in your head
The old dream for a number the time for a call
You wait you take on your eye ? like eyes in your ? no lie in just thunder enrols in your head
Those dreams for the number
You're ? wonder you take ?
You can't looking for
You should knock them doors
You don't play no more ?
If I were you I'd pay my dues before I lose
That trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for, you shouldn't knocking doors
You don't play to walk through
If I were you I'd pay my dues.
You've got a lot of long answers
Still a lot of short questions
You've had a lot of last chances
A run o lucky guesses
They all nerves is standing
You bet it all in ? back
But if your steady hands in
Then the glass is shaking ?
I think that you're gonna find out that all you look out
That your words is not worth much here ooh
All the trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for
You should knock them doors
You don't play no more ?
If I were you I'd pay my dues before I lose
That trouble you've been looking for
You can't looking for, you shouldn't knocking doors
You don't play to walk through
If I were you I'd pay my dues.
The angel on your shoulder
She hasn't say too much to stay
And it seems you're getting older
Faster than most ?
'Cause you're ? like ? no lie in just thunder
It all in your head
The old dream for a number the time for a call
You wait you take on your eye ? like eyes in your ? no lie in just thunder enrols in your head
Those dreams for the number
You're ? wonder you take ?
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