"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 coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
Everyone seems to know the score
They've seen it all before
They just know, they're so sure
That England's gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
Cos I remember
(chorus)
Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so nears
When your down, through the years
But I still see that tackle by Moore
And when Lineker scored
Bobby belting the ball
And Nobby dancing
(chorus)
I know that was then
But it could be again
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
(repeat chorus to fade)
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
Everyone seems to know the score
They've seen it all before
They just know, they're so sure
That England's gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
Cos I remember
(chorus)
Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so nears
When your down, through the years
But I still see that tackle by Moore
And when Lineker scored
Bobby belting the ball
And Nobby dancing
(chorus)
I know that was then
But it could be again
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Footballs coming home
(repeat chorus to fade)
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What's it about? I'm Scottish, what do you bloody think it's about.
Still, I'm a big Lightning Seeds fan. Not those two others idiots.