"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.
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
Don't like the direction you have come to
Now it has the attention that it used to
Stay home all night with the tv and wife
Comfortable life ain't all it's cracked up to be
Don't like the direction you have come to
And it's easy to get caught
And the weight of the world
It's falling on your face
So unsure that you would
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
And it's easy to get caught
And the weight of the world
It's falling on your face
So unsure that you would
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
Don't like the direction you have come to
Now it has the attention that it used to
Stay home all night with the tv and wife
Comfortable life ain't all it's cracked up to be
Don't like the direction you have come to
And it's easy to get caught
And the weight of the world
It's falling on your face
So unsure that you would
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
And it's easy to get caught
And the weight of the world
It's falling on your face
So unsure that you would
Don't like the direction you are going to
Seems to lack the attention that it used to
You stay out all night and get high with your friends
Wonder why you don't get one thing done in the end
Don't like the direction you are going to
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Yes. Definitely fits vanilla sky very well. It's about someone who would rather mess around, and put the future off till tomorrow, and get high and settle for an ordinary life, but deep down he knows he's letting go of his dreams and doesn't like what's happening to him, but can't change his ways.