"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.
The look of hunger in a woman with heat
Is enough to lift an old man from his knees
Like the piece of a puzzle
he's been lookin' for
He was leanin' to dyin'
now he's comin' back for more.
The look of a woman
when she gets you alone
You can't see what's comin'
but there's blood in your bones.
There's powder in your pocket
and ships in your sea
Well it doesn't often happen
but it happened to me.
Then she goes back to her man
Back to her man
Back to, back to her man.
There's a look of war in the way that you go
But the lead in your arrow is loose,
don't you know?
And all that you've got is lost in the game
Of picking your own pockets
for someone to blame.
There may be nothin' above the arc of love
Depending on who you're dreaming of
And you can't escape
when it feels like rape
But who's raping who?
Then she goes back to her man
Back to her man
Back to, back to her man. (2x)
She don't love him
She don't love him no more
Love him, love him (2x)
She don't love her man
She don't love (2x)
She goes back to her man
Back her man
Back to, back to her man.
Is enough to lift an old man from his knees
Like the piece of a puzzle
he's been lookin' for
He was leanin' to dyin'
now he's comin' back for more.
The look of a woman
when she gets you alone
You can't see what's comin'
but there's blood in your bones.
There's powder in your pocket
and ships in your sea
Well it doesn't often happen
but it happened to me.
Then she goes back to her man
Back to her man
Back to, back to her man.
There's a look of war in the way that you go
But the lead in your arrow is loose,
don't you know?
And all that you've got is lost in the game
Of picking your own pockets
for someone to blame.
There may be nothin' above the arc of love
Depending on who you're dreaming of
And you can't escape
when it feels like rape
But who's raping who?
Then she goes back to her man
Back to her man
Back to, back to her man. (2x)
She don't love him
She don't love him no more
Love him, love him (2x)
She don't love her man
She don't love (2x)
She goes back to her man
Back her man
Back to, back to her man.
Lyrics submitted by Anuk92
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