"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.
Tired and jaded
This road is unsafe
Have you been there?
Have you been there?
But time is on your side
You're too stubborn to wait
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
They want you to know
They want you to stay
Oh, it's too much to take
So you're running
Oh, you're running away
But oh
No
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Car crash
Ending your days
At the side of the road
Are you trembling?
Are you trembling?
They'll wake up today
To the papers that say
Oh, well it was too hard to tell
He was swerving
They were swerving
Much too late
But no
But oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
Oh, it's more it's more, more
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
But oh
Hi-ee-I-ee-I-ee, oh, oh
Hi, it's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
More
More
More
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
This road is unsafe
Have you been there?
Have you been there?
But time is on your side
You're too stubborn to wait
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
They want you to know
They want you to stay
Oh, it's too much to take
So you're running
Oh, you're running away
But oh
No
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Car crash
Ending your days
At the side of the road
Are you trembling?
Are you trembling?
They'll wake up today
To the papers that say
Oh, well it was too hard to tell
He was swerving
They were swerving
Much too late
But no
But oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
Oh
Oh, it's more it's more, more
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
But oh
Hi-ee-I-ee-I-ee, oh, oh
Hi, it's more than I can bear
Oh
It's more than I can bear
More
More
More
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
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