"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.
It's slowly maintaining now
I tried to bring it back, but it's over somehow
The static is silent so I hear you're stable now
Tired of progress but only we can work it out
It's slowly maintaining now
Tried to bring it back, but it's over somehow
The reality is you were never real at all
Spinning in circles just another programmed thought
So we'll break off a piece of nothing And take on the world baby
And I'm finally letting go and I think that you should know
And I'm finally letting go, I think its better for us both
You and me, we're gonna beat this down to the ground
But let's run for now
I tried to bring it back, but it's over somehow
The static is silent so I hear you're stable now
Tired of progress but only we can work it out
It's slowly maintaining now
Tried to bring it back, but it's over somehow
The reality is you were never real at all
Spinning in circles just another programmed thought
So we'll break off a piece of nothing And take on the world baby
And I'm finally letting go and I think that you should know
And I'm finally letting go, I think its better for us both
You and me, we're gonna beat this down to the ground
But let's run for now
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{my guess} i think it's about someone in a relationship that's falling apart and he's saying to just avoid the problem "you and me, we're gonna beat this down the the ground, but let's run for now"... but then that verse about finally letting go kinda throws me off. but whatever, definately their best song
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