"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.
When you were up they brought you down
Now you're alone in hell
When you were high they hung around
But they left once you fell
If things can get better, Things will get better
But they don't, They never do
And everything's going to become much worse
Unimaginably worse
And never get better, Never get better again
What's in this world and where's the point?
There's nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing but evil madness
Evil madness
And now, Now you're alone
And what, What do you know?
You think you might do something good
But you don't, You never do
They always think they know it all
But they don't, They don't
They're all waiting for something
And know nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing but evil madness
Evil madness
Now you're alone in hell
When you were high they hung around
But they left once you fell
If things can get better, Things will get better
But they don't, They never do
And everything's going to become much worse
Unimaginably worse
And never get better, Never get better again
What's in this world and where's the point?
There's nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing but evil madness
Evil madness
And now, Now you're alone
And what, What do you know?
You think you might do something good
But you don't, You never do
They always think they know it all
But they don't, They don't
They're all waiting for something
And know nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing but evil madness
Evil madness
Lyrics submitted by dryinbones
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