"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.
Oh, in Pine Point, where I was born
The roads are all overgrown
And no one's lived there for years
The town was never the same
The mine was closed in '88
And everyone disappeared
In Pine Point, '86
My older brother died when we were kids
His best friend was wasted at the wheel
Oh, in Pine Point, nothing but memories
The abandoned cemetery
Where we buried our family
And I hope you know, what you're doing
Up in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, Pine Point
It's deteriorating
And your memory started fading
So you called to let me know
You said it seems like forever
Since we've seen each other
Where does the time go?
And I said
I hope you know what you're doing
In Pine Point
In the house we grew up in
You said the room you were born in
It was just like you left it
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
I hope you know
I hope you know what you're doing, after all
I hope that you know
I hope you know
I hope you know
What you're doing after all
I hope that you know
What you're doing
The roads are all overgrown
And no one's lived there for years
The town was never the same
The mine was closed in '88
And everyone disappeared
In Pine Point, '86
My older brother died when we were kids
His best friend was wasted at the wheel
Oh, in Pine Point, nothing but memories
The abandoned cemetery
Where we buried our family
And I hope you know, what you're doing
Up in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, Pine Point
It's deteriorating
And your memory started fading
So you called to let me know
You said it seems like forever
Since we've seen each other
Where does the time go?
And I said
I hope you know what you're doing
In Pine Point
In the house we grew up in
You said the room you were born in
It was just like you left it
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
Oh, in Pine Point
Where I kept my eye on the prize
And it was you
It was you
I hope you know
I hope you know what you're doing, after all
I hope that you know
I hope you know
I hope you know
What you're doing after all
I hope that you know
What you're doing
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Pine Point Lyrics as written by Zachary Ivan Mykula Stefan Patrick Babcock
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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