"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.
No - I'll lay half empty, half finished,
Half written, until my end
I'll leave the lights on just in case
You want to be found again
To the dead, I wrote you countless letters
Dear only some I sent
How easy it was for silence to say
Some of the loudest of things
To speak so effortlessly the words and syllables
That can crush in an instant
To our end, to the dear departed
Are you my last chance or the first chapter
In the greatest fable ever told
For the rope is getting shorter and these days
They are getting longer with every ghosts I find
They leave no heart unbroken
My great devastator
To our end, to the dear departed
Are you my last chance or the first chapter
In the greatest fable ever told
I'll leave the lights on just in case
You want to be found again
My great devastator
Half written, until my end
I'll leave the lights on just in case
You want to be found again
To the dead, I wrote you countless letters
Dear only some I sent
How easy it was for silence to say
Some of the loudest of things
To speak so effortlessly the words and syllables
That can crush in an instant
To our end, to the dear departed
Are you my last chance or the first chapter
In the greatest fable ever told
For the rope is getting shorter and these days
They are getting longer with every ghosts I find
They leave no heart unbroken
My great devastator
To our end, to the dear departed
Are you my last chance or the first chapter
In the greatest fable ever told
I'll leave the lights on just in case
You want to be found again
My great devastator
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i was pretty much forced to make an account and comment this due to the asinine comments i'm seeing smeared all over the pages for these, which are the most deep rooted and shaking visions of human emotion ever put out in music. it's been over a year since the last person commented, but i felt a need because of how much this song impacted me throught a relationship i was recently in. there's no need to wonder at this songs meaning.
it's about true love, he sacrificed everything for her, bled himself completely dry, and scorned everything that did not approach her with dignity, and as the years went on he knew she was fading, and was gone, leaving him as the shell he'd been the entire time, but every single lonely night he waits for her return, something that has destroyed him completely, but the only thing he's ever found a real meaning in.
jake's lyrics strike the wounded and those who are still struggling for life's hearts in a way that no one is going to understand without even a basic respect for the english language (which no one on this sickening excuse for a website has). the fact that these idiots are even allowed to state their opinions on these works of art make me want to throw up all over myself.