"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 got no place to complain about those angry days
There's no fight and no war, but you're still left under par
It's a sign of the times, there aren't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision, so you're pointing the blame
Think of what you are, don't stand this accusation
You'll never get rest, cause there ain't no fast redemption
Worst than you think, more than you ever thought
And you're up to your neck and you keep on being fashioned
This is not fad, it's an emotional breakdown
And that's how you're gonna feel, when your nerves call this shutdown
You're not gonna fight, you're not gonna rebel
Disease is in your face, and it's worse than Latrell Sprewell!
So you're down with the truth and you take it on the youth
Got no plan no morals and an empty self esteem
It's a sign of the times, there ain't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision, so you're pointing the blame
Don't break your arm with a slap, tryin' a throw down
You'll wind up on your back, wishing you just had your face down
It's shun certified, the palm is on your blind side
This is what you get, when you beg for fast redemption
You got no place to complain about those angry days
There's no fight and no war, but you're still left under par
It's a sign of the times, there aren't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision
There's no fight and no war, but you're still left under par
It's a sign of the times, there aren't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision, so you're pointing the blame
Think of what you are, don't stand this accusation
You'll never get rest, cause there ain't no fast redemption
Worst than you think, more than you ever thought
And you're up to your neck and you keep on being fashioned
This is not fad, it's an emotional breakdown
And that's how you're gonna feel, when your nerves call this shutdown
You're not gonna fight, you're not gonna rebel
Disease is in your face, and it's worse than Latrell Sprewell!
So you're down with the truth and you take it on the youth
Got no plan no morals and an empty self esteem
It's a sign of the times, there ain't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision, so you're pointing the blame
Don't break your arm with a slap, tryin' a throw down
You'll wind up on your back, wishing you just had your face down
It's shun certified, the palm is on your blind side
This is what you get, when you beg for fast redemption
You got no place to complain about those angry days
There's no fight and no war, but you're still left under par
It's a sign of the times, there aren't no equal rights
You have trouble with decision
Lyrics submitted by Peon3D
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Fast Car
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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