"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.
I don't have no ring
But I could steal one on the way
I'll be makin' good on all the promises I made
I never had much money
But I got a little saved
Baby, leave the light on
I'll be comin' over late
A face just like an angel
There's a lion in your eyes
You could tempt the devil
And I wouldn't be surprised
You believe in ghosts
You're the girl I love the most
You coulda had a better man
But I'm the one you chose
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
You're staring at it differently out in the light of day
I may have missed the party, but there's flowers on the way
You say, "No one needs to save you, and no one ever should
Throw yourself together, boy, it'll only do you good."
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I could be delivered
I could go to rest on high
Up in Paradise forever in a golden shinin' sky
It couldn't feel much different than the years I had alive
Starin' up into the heavens with you lyin' by my side
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
You believe in ghosts
You're the girl I love the most
You coulda had a better man
But I'm the one you chose
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
But I could steal one on the way
I'll be makin' good on all the promises I made
I never had much money
But I got a little saved
Baby, leave the light on
I'll be comin' over late
A face just like an angel
There's a lion in your eyes
You could tempt the devil
And I wouldn't be surprised
You believe in ghosts
You're the girl I love the most
You coulda had a better man
But I'm the one you chose
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
You're staring at it differently out in the light of day
I may have missed the party, but there's flowers on the way
You say, "No one needs to save you, and no one ever should
Throw yourself together, boy, it'll only do you good."
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I could be delivered
I could go to rest on high
Up in Paradise forever in a golden shinin' sky
It couldn't feel much different than the years I had alive
Starin' up into the heavens with you lyin' by my side
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
You believe in ghosts
You're the girl I love the most
You coulda had a better man
But I'm the one you chose
So when I say I need you and I'm never gonna stop
Believe me 'cause I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Don't you ever doubt that I will give it all I've got
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
I'll be scraping up the pieces from the bottom of my heart
Lyrics submitted by TeeKayyTotally
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