"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.
I don't know about the travel of time
And I've never seen most of the world, ooh
I don't know diving out of the sky
Or living like the diamonds of pearls
See I haven't danced to a musical tune
And I haven't noticed the flowers in bloom
And I haven't smiled when alone in my room very much
Then we touched, woah
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
When you put your hands on me, ooh
I don't know if a doll can unwind
Or how to make a person go
I don't know how to be what you like
And simply open up the depths of my soul
So I keep my wings and my eyes on the down (la-la-la)
Ready for nothing but holding my ground (la-la-la)
I haven't used a particular noun very much
Then we touched, oh
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
When you put your hands on me (ooh, oh-yeah)
I won't notice or pay you no mind (pay you no mind)
Boy I couldn't care less what you do with you time
Your fingertips on my hips
Just move me like one of a kind
(When you put your hands on me) I just know when you put your hands on me
(I feel so sexy) I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel ready (I feel ready, baby) and I lose my self-control
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know, when you put your hands on me
And I've never seen most of the world, ooh
I don't know diving out of the sky
Or living like the diamonds of pearls
See I haven't danced to a musical tune
And I haven't noticed the flowers in bloom
And I haven't smiled when alone in my room very much
Then we touched, woah
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
When you put your hands on me, ooh
I don't know if a doll can unwind
Or how to make a person go
I don't know how to be what you like
And simply open up the depths of my soul
So I keep my wings and my eyes on the down (la-la-la)
Ready for nothing but holding my ground (la-la-la)
I haven't used a particular noun very much
Then we touched, oh
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
When you put your hands on me (ooh, oh-yeah)
I won't notice or pay you no mind (pay you no mind)
Boy I couldn't care less what you do with you time
Your fingertips on my hips
Just move me like one of a kind
(When you put your hands on me) I just know when you put your hands on me
(I feel so sexy) I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know when you put your hands on me
I feel ready and I lose my self control
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel ready (I feel ready, baby) and I lose my self-control
I just know, when you put your hands on me
I feel sexy and my body turns to gold
I just know, when you put your hands on me
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Self explainitory but what the hell. She feels great when someone touches her and she's singing about how she feels when this happens.
Yeah... the meaning of the lyrics are described in the lyrics for all to hear, so it's kinda hard to miss the drift of this song.