"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.
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
They sing to the darkest night
Long before
They sing to the darkest night
Long before
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
They sing to the darkest night
Long before
They sing to the darkest night
Long before
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Why can't I face it?
Am I too blind to see?
Why did he go?
Why did he leave me?
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Sunday was a bright day yesterday
Dark cloud has come into the way
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Ooh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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i took a gamble and just purchased '18' on a whim. the only album of moby's that i had been familiar with was 'play'; i had been looking for that record for a while, and i finally found it at a record store earlier this year. well, they also happened to be selling a copy of '18,' so i decided to pick that album up as well. and i couldn't be happier that i did so, because this song alone was worth the price of admission. as someone has already pointed out, the comments on here about september 11th are hilarious. the lyrics aren't even moby's. he simply sampled some snippets from someone else's song, so since these are merely small parts taken from a greater whole, there's really no room to make inferences due to the fact that we're missing at least half of the original song. i'm not trying to be a smart-ass. someone could make the (far-reaching) argument that by trimming the lyrics, moby has given the song a new and different context. but ultimately, i think the actual lyrics themselves aren't meant to have much weight here; it's the way the notes are sung, rather than the words themselves, that really grabs me. musically, though, moby did create a very different context for this song. there will be detractors, but i like sylvia robinson's vocal better in moby's song than in her own. her version has a meandering acoustic guitar and string accompaniment that (to my ears) doesn't provide the right frame for her vocals. moby's instrumentation, on the other hand, is absolutely fantastic (at least in my book). he keeps the string section but his score is not at all the same since the strings add a very different harmonic counterpoint. and his version contains a radically different guitar part as well; the guitar is a lot less pronounced in the mix since it only comes in to provide a few accents here and there, but i think it's quite a bit more interesting. the piano, though, is what delivers the major coup. i fucking love the piano in this song. it's got an awesome rollicking rhythm to it and the chord changes are simply beautiful. to me, this song is easily the highlight of '18.' and it's also a song that i relish all the more when listening to the album because it's the lovely rainbow after the abysmal storm that is "jam for the ladies."