"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 saw you walking past me just the other day,
another heartbeat with thoughts of yesterday
You looked the same, years are only time,
I still wonder why our hearts could never rhyme.
You stood beside me, you didn't recognize me.,
funny how things never change.
And when you walked on by a memory surprised me,
smoking cigarettes, your girlfriends by the pool.
Your smell I could not forget,
that's as close as i could get
you were so fucking cool.
[I'm no good,
you're no better,
wouldn't we work together?]x2
All I wanted was a piece of your heart,
you left me torn apart.
Fuck the rest before me and their crimes,
for your love I'll serve their time
[I'm no good,
you're no better
wouldn't we work together?] x4
[I'm no good,
you're no better]x3 Slow 3rd time
another heartbeat with thoughts of yesterday
You looked the same, years are only time,
I still wonder why our hearts could never rhyme.
You stood beside me, you didn't recognize me.,
funny how things never change.
And when you walked on by a memory surprised me,
smoking cigarettes, your girlfriends by the pool.
Your smell I could not forget,
that's as close as i could get
you were so fucking cool.
[I'm no good,
you're no better,
wouldn't we work together?]x2
All I wanted was a piece of your heart,
you left me torn apart.
Fuck the rest before me and their crimes,
for your love I'll serve their time
[I'm no good,
you're no better
wouldn't we work together?] x4
[I'm no good,
you're no better]x3 Slow 3rd time
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"Fuck the rest before me and their crimes, for your love I'll serve their time " that line kills me, I liked a girl and all her previous boyfriends were immature idiots who treated her like shit... ie they wanted to have lan parties rather then celebrate her birthday. No matter how different i am from her exes she still has fear in her heart.. well thats how I take the line girl wont date guy cause she is sick of being treated like shit