"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.
Now why d'you have to stand there on your own?
I just can't bear to see you so alone
You want to grab the spotlight, can't you see?
For me, the moon is up and bright lights it will always be
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
I'm so afraid I might forget my lines
I always say the wrong things all the time
But if I had the words, I'd cry out loud
Oh, Sal, we don't need a writer, what we've got is all our power
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
Sally you're a winner
Always been a dreamer
Sally you can be a star
Sally can't you hear me?
Won't you please believe me?
Sally that's the way you are
You say it will be all right on the night (I'm sure will be dark and loud)
Why worry? We can fix it with the lights (I know that we can work it out)
And if we fall ascending every cloud
Too short, releases the mind when? Don't live my life this way
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way, the way
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way, the way we are
I just can't bear to see you so alone
You want to grab the spotlight, can't you see?
For me, the moon is up and bright lights it will always be
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
I'm so afraid I might forget my lines
I always say the wrong things all the time
But if I had the words, I'd cry out loud
Oh, Sal, we don't need a writer, what we've got is all our power
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
Sally you're a winner
Always been a dreamer
Sally you can be a star
Sally can't you hear me?
Won't you please believe me?
Sally that's the way you are
You say it will be all right on the night (I'm sure will be dark and loud)
Why worry? We can fix it with the lights (I know that we can work it out)
And if we fall ascending every cloud
Too short, releases the mind when? Don't live my life this way
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way, the way
Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way, the way we are
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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