"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.
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
I need a one-way
A one-way sign
Fagin's prophets on Aesop's ride
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Like templar thieves
Well, you've had me
A buck so sweet (sweet)
You've spoilt the fray
Which of these dauphins can set you free?
From flaming youth to token army
But give me anodyne
Or give me pandrogynes
I'll take home a hidden
A hidden sun
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(A hidden sun)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
In lieu of morphine (morphine)
Come eminence
I'm stuck with blunt force (blunt force), and Morpheus
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Oh, Chiron cleave where you've had me
On pain of love I'd shattered sweet
Which of these dauphins can set you free?
From flaming youth to token army
But give me anodyne
Or give me pandrogynes (one way)
I'll take home a hidden sun
(Sun)
But give me anodyne (dauphine)
Or give me pandrogynes (one day)
I'll take home a hidden sun
I'll take home a hidden sun
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
I need a one-way
A one-way sign
Fagin's prophets on Aesop's ride
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Like templar thieves
Well, you've had me
A buck so sweet (sweet)
You've spoilt the fray
Which of these dauphins can set you free?
From flaming youth to token army
But give me anodyne
Or give me pandrogynes
I'll take home a hidden
A hidden sun
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(A hidden sun)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
In lieu of morphine (morphine)
Come eminence
I'm stuck with blunt force (blunt force), and Morpheus
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Oh, Chiron cleave where you've had me
On pain of love I'd shattered sweet
Which of these dauphins can set you free?
From flaming youth to token army
But give me anodyne
Or give me pandrogynes (one way)
I'll take home a hidden sun
(Sun)
But give me anodyne (dauphine)
Or give me pandrogynes (one day)
I'll take home a hidden sun
I'll take home a hidden sun
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