"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.
All the hippies just to say
just a bunch of wacked out freaks
What you were is almost gone
it's all coming down on you
25 years too late! New breed hippies go away
25 years too late! Give it up for shit sake
What you've always said and done
boring fucking your no fun
This is something watch you breed
the abstinance that you don't see
25 years too late! New breed hippies go away
25 years too late! Give it up for shit sake
But you seem like all the rest,
put you hippies to the test
Can't you see your in the past
can't you see that it won't last
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away.
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake ahh!
just a bunch of wacked out freaks
What you were is almost gone
it's all coming down on you
25 years too late! New breed hippies go away
25 years too late! Give it up for shit sake
What you've always said and done
boring fucking your no fun
This is something watch you breed
the abstinance that you don't see
25 years too late! New breed hippies go away
25 years too late! Give it up for shit sake
But you seem like all the rest,
put you hippies to the test
Can't you see your in the past
can't you see that it won't last
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake
25 years too late! new breed hippies go away.
25 years too late! give it up for shit sake ahh!
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