"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.
You can tell us that it isn't serious
And you can tell us that you'll do it right
You can tell us that you've got it all worked out
You can tell us that it's all for us
But we know you're lying through your teeth
You can tell us that it's for security
And you can tell us it's for our own good
You can tell us that we wouldn't understand,
And you can hide behind your practiced grin
But we know you're lying through your teeth
You will bare the brunt of liability
It will be a stone around your neck,
Drowning you in irresponsibility,
Underneath the weight of your regret
You can sell our secrets for your benefit
You can toss our bodies in the ground
You can ship our children off to battlefields
You can wipe the blood from both your hands
You can tell us that it's indisputable,
As you throw away the evidence
But, we know you're lying through your teeth
You will bare the brunt of liability
It will be a stone around your neck,
Drowning you in irresponsibility,
Underneath the weight of your regret.
And you can tell us that you'll do it right
You can tell us that you've got it all worked out
You can tell us that it's all for us
But we know you're lying through your teeth
You can tell us that it's for security
And you can tell us it's for our own good
You can tell us that we wouldn't understand,
And you can hide behind your practiced grin
But we know you're lying through your teeth
You will bare the brunt of liability
It will be a stone around your neck,
Drowning you in irresponsibility,
Underneath the weight of your regret
You can sell our secrets for your benefit
You can toss our bodies in the ground
You can ship our children off to battlefields
You can wipe the blood from both your hands
You can tell us that it's indisputable,
As you throw away the evidence
But, we know you're lying through your teeth
You will bare the brunt of liability
It will be a stone around your neck,
Drowning you in irresponsibility,
Underneath the weight of your regret.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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hmm i think it's about fighting in the war, and something with the goverment. but i can be reading the message in the song wrongly i suppose.