"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.
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was riding on the E-train
I was whistling to the rhythm
I was thinking about my live-in
I was feeling pretty fine
I asked the time
Got a poke in the eye
When I read the latest news
How we can't believe he wore those shoes
Should we have the man impeached
Or should we shoot him in the foot
Well you waste my time, you waste my time
Looking for two hundred ways to hang a guy
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Allegations, interrogations, investigations
Then more taxation
National past time is aggravation
I think I'll move out to a desert isle
Just for a while
To avoid all that's distracting
Like newspapers and magazines
Insipid propagandizing
To tell me what a loser I've elected
But you've neglected to tell the truth
That your politics is tied around his foot
And we too are dangling
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Do you think that we are crazy
Low I.Q., that we are lazy
That we sit here watching sitcoms
That we have no clue to what is going on
Well you got that wrong
Wait and see, the boom will fall
The morning eggs will hit the wall
And everyone I know will call
To say that change is hanging in the air
You'd best beware
Well you'll wake up and
Average Joe is in your chair
Just because he'd kinda
Like to do what's right
But more 'cause
All you politicians do is fight
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was riding on the e-train
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was seeing out a refrain
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was riding on the E-train
I was whistling to the rhythm
I was thinking about my live-in
I was feeling pretty fine
I asked the time
Got a poke in the eye
When I read the latest news
How we can't believe he wore those shoes
Should we have the man impeached
Or should we shoot him in the foot
Well you waste my time, you waste my time
Looking for two hundred ways to hang a guy
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Allegations, interrogations, investigations
Then more taxation
National past time is aggravation
I think I'll move out to a desert isle
Just for a while
To avoid all that's distracting
Like newspapers and magazines
Insipid propagandizing
To tell me what a loser I've elected
But you've neglected to tell the truth
That your politics is tied around his foot
And we too are dangling
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Do you think that we are crazy
Low I.Q., that we are lazy
That we sit here watching sitcoms
That we have no clue to what is going on
Well you got that wrong
Wait and see, the boom will fall
The morning eggs will hit the wall
And everyone I know will call
To say that change is hanging in the air
You'd best beware
Well you'll wake up and
Average Joe is in your chair
Just because he'd kinda
Like to do what's right
But more 'cause
All you politicians do is fight
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was riding on the e-train
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
I was seeing out a refrain
Doo doo doo doo
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Subway Ride Lyrics as written by Sheryl Crow
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