"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.
Handy it's for you even though you're not supposed to.
Go away Sue fool Sue.
With a smile at your creation of a mass anticipation.
Go away Sue, go on Sue.
Give a milder man his place to give a silencer it's grace to.
Go-ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Try to get it straight,
I'm in action and I hate it.
Can I write my eager list with a message on the end?
You can reach me at the station,
I will swear to keep you waiting.
Am I joking?
Am I hell.
I'm a user and I'm closer.
It's a silly kind of meaning,
I can see sense in your reason.
Go away fool, away fool.
Either way to be tight fisted other means have been enlisted.
In your name fool, name fool.
Take a second to decide if you and I are going to croak
If you are maimed fool, maimed fool.
So let it go, lady leave it out.
Oh why cause I read so.
Caught you on the ground again and it looks so.
Fully is the fake without any cuts show.
Filling in the time before.
About time.
They convince you to agonise.
Take a cut when you get the prize.
About time.
Make a limp cause he's at the door
With a splint you can ask for more.
About time.
Press eject when the fund it ends,
Then again on the gravy train.
About time.
Did it up I tried to qualify a lie to hurt you.
Go ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Be a dear and say to no one never know you might be told on.
Go ahead Sue, go on Sue.
I am always by your side to tell a lie if I'm allowed to.
Go-ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Go away Sue fool Sue.
With a smile at your creation of a mass anticipation.
Go away Sue, go on Sue.
Give a milder man his place to give a silencer it's grace to.
Go-ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Try to get it straight,
I'm in action and I hate it.
Can I write my eager list with a message on the end?
You can reach me at the station,
I will swear to keep you waiting.
Am I joking?
Am I hell.
I'm a user and I'm closer.
It's a silly kind of meaning,
I can see sense in your reason.
Go away fool, away fool.
Either way to be tight fisted other means have been enlisted.
In your name fool, name fool.
Take a second to decide if you and I are going to croak
If you are maimed fool, maimed fool.
So let it go, lady leave it out.
Oh why cause I read so.
Caught you on the ground again and it looks so.
Fully is the fake without any cuts show.
Filling in the time before.
About time.
They convince you to agonise.
Take a cut when you get the prize.
About time.
Make a limp cause he's at the door
With a splint you can ask for more.
About time.
Press eject when the fund it ends,
Then again on the gravy train.
About time.
Did it up I tried to qualify a lie to hurt you.
Go ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Be a dear and say to no one never know you might be told on.
Go ahead Sue, go on Sue.
I am always by your side to tell a lie if I'm allowed to.
Go-ahead Sue, go on Sue.
Lyrics submitted by Harry Manback
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