"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.
(Through you I see I)
Between a broken nose and a fake smile
Between piety and gunpowder
Between fighting and fleeing the scene
Between murder and diplomacy
Between aggression and oblivion
Between brutal and realistically well-behaved
Between screaming and pulling in the reins
Between tiptoeing and ambling
What am I to do with all this fire?
(I'd like to hit you but I would never hit you)
Would you stay with me in this red space?
(I'd like to slap you but I would never slap you)
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between flying vases and secretly weeping
Between loose cannons and ever downplaying
Between bruises and rudely differing
Between bursting and boiling
What am I to do with all this burning?
(I'd like to hurt you but I could never hurt you)
Do I overwhelm you in this place?
(I'd like to kill you but I could never kill you)
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
What am I to do with all this fire?
Can you understand me in this place?
Between a broken nose and a fake smile
Between piety and gunpowder
Between fighting and fleeing the scene
Between murder and diplomacy
Between aggression and oblivion
Between brutal and realistically well-behaved
Between screaming and pulling in the reins
Between tiptoeing and ambling
What am I to do with all this fire?
(I'd like to hit you but I would never hit you)
Would you stay with me in this red space?
(I'd like to slap you but I would never slap you)
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between flying vases and secretly weeping
Between loose cannons and ever downplaying
Between bruises and rudely differing
Between bursting and boiling
What am I to do with all this burning?
(I'd like to hurt you but I could never hurt you)
Do I overwhelm you in this place?
(I'd like to kill you but I could never kill you)
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
Between violence and silently seething
Between my fist and my pollyanna flower
Between "fuck you" to your face and "it's alright"
Between war and denial
What am I to do with all this fire?
Can you understand me in this place?
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sadistlitlePuppy: I think it's "f**k you". As opposed to "it's alright". The song puts side by side totally opposite attitudes or courses of action and reflects a sensation of being trapped between them. As if she wasn't really sure of how to cope with problems.