"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.
A friend I had once told me
Such an unusual story
That other men did breathe in
But never did breathe back out
This tale reminds me of you
Although a different shade of blue
You've gotta always take, and never give
This is not how to live
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
Although I don't know this for sure
It's just another knock at my door
Thinking of amusing all things that never did
And ill tell you when I find out
And show you what it is to breathe out
'Cause natural progression
Lends the lesson of your mind
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around, oh
And I'm feeling you
Another way to be
Yeah yeah yeah
And I'm watching you
Breathe over me yeah yeah yeah
Breathing
I could tell the jack and ourie
Into this unusual story
It's a breath upon the window pain
So come on step out of the rain, yeah yeah
Though id like to think its the truth
You've become a deeper shade of blue
And in my eyes this comes as no surprise
There's nothing left for you, no
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around, oh
Breathe in and out
You've gota breathe in and out
Breathe in and out
You've gotta breathe in and out
Breathe in and out
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta
Breathe
Such an unusual story
That other men did breathe in
But never did breathe back out
This tale reminds me of you
Although a different shade of blue
You've gotta always take, and never give
This is not how to live
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
Although I don't know this for sure
It's just another knock at my door
Thinking of amusing all things that never did
And ill tell you when I find out
And show you what it is to breathe out
'Cause natural progression
Lends the lesson of your mind
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around, oh
And I'm feeling you
Another way to be
Yeah yeah yeah
And I'm watching you
Breathe over me yeah yeah yeah
Breathing
I could tell the jack and ourie
Into this unusual story
It's a breath upon the window pain
So come on step out of the rain, yeah yeah
Though id like to think its the truth
You've become a deeper shade of blue
And in my eyes this comes as no surprise
There's nothing left for you, no
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta spread a little love around, oh
Breathe in and out
You've gota breathe in and out
Breathe in and out
You've gotta breathe in and out
Breathe in and out
You've gotta breathe in and out
You've gotta
Breathe
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