"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.
Little virgin, clean and bright
Milk white skin moved in from night
Unblemished are your private parts
Desire can't oppress your light
Queue 'round movements that you make
Will not make men hesitate
Lest your chimes are all revealed
Then your barrow you may wheel
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Child, all of this we have done for you
Child, we are only thinking of you
Little virgin, sweetly made
Knows not of the plans we've laid
Got the fragile flickering light
To extinguish as we write
Free from every wicked thing
You receive a diamond ring
Prepubescent wedding day
Thereupon you lay your head
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Milk white skin moved in from night
Unblemished are your private parts
Desire can't oppress your light
Queue 'round movements that you make
Will not make men hesitate
Lest your chimes are all revealed
Then your barrow you may wheel
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Child, all of this we have done for you
Child, we are only thinking of you
Little virgin, sweetly made
Knows not of the plans we've laid
Got the fragile flickering light
To extinguish as we write
Free from every wicked thing
You receive a diamond ring
Prepubescent wedding day
Thereupon you lay your head
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Do not furrow that perfect brow
Chaste lips never to part 'til now
Lyrics submitted by mayamayouidiot
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