"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.
There's a train of love comin' round the corner
There's a train of love crossing the border
There's a train of love comin' round the corner
Gonna jump on gonna jump on at the border
Train of love is comin' round the corner
I got the fear of god and some money tucked away in my shoe
I got a little green bud in a locket with a picture of you
I got permission from your dad and a kiss from your mother
They send you their love they want to send you your brother
Train of love is comin' round the corner
The engineer is crazy and the train is travelin' so fast
You've got to jump on the future with little regard for the past
Johnny walked the line and I'm gonna follow
Get her home tonight she might not see tomorrow
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Grab your Levi's and bring your cowboy boots
Quit your job say goodbye tell your friends you're leaving tonight
On the train of love
Train of love
Train of love
If you're feeling kind of crazy we could take this train through the woods
We'll get married in the forest honeymoon in my neighborhood
The twins are on the way Hannah and Samantha
We'll buy a big house and live happy ever after
Train of love is comin' round to take me to you
Grab your Levi's and bring your cowboy boots
Quit your job say goodbye tell your friends you're leaving tonight
On the train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love
There's a train of love crossing the border
There's a train of love comin' round the corner
Gonna jump on gonna jump on at the border
Train of love is comin' round the corner
I got the fear of god and some money tucked away in my shoe
I got a little green bud in a locket with a picture of you
I got permission from your dad and a kiss from your mother
They send you their love they want to send you your brother
Train of love is comin' round the corner
The engineer is crazy and the train is travelin' so fast
You've got to jump on the future with little regard for the past
Johnny walked the line and I'm gonna follow
Get her home tonight she might not see tomorrow
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Grab your Levi's and bring your cowboy boots
Quit your job say goodbye tell your friends you're leaving tonight
On the train of love
Train of love
Train of love
If you're feeling kind of crazy we could take this train through the woods
We'll get married in the forest honeymoon in my neighborhood
The twins are on the way Hannah and Samantha
We'll buy a big house and live happy ever after
Train of love is comin' round to take me to you
Grab your Levi's and bring your cowboy boots
Quit your job say goodbye tell your friends you're leaving tonight
On the train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love is comin' round the corner
Train of love
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