"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'm German, you're Jewish
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
This would make more sense, in another time
Not in America where we're westernized
But if we were, what would I do
What would I have said to what we've gone through?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why I'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving, hiding
Behind an old bookshelf
I'm German, you're Jewish
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
You've always been above, in some higher class
I'm just a small rockstar, you're an actress
what could I say, to ever prove to you
that there can be a love between a German and a Jew?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why I'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving hiding
Behind an old bookshelf...
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
This would make more sense, in another time
Not in America where we're westernized
But if we were, what would I do
What would I have said to what we've gone through?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why I'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving, hiding
Behind an old bookshelf
I'm German, you're Jewish
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
You've always been above, in some higher class
I'm just a small rockstar, you're an actress
what could I say, to ever prove to you
that there can be a love between a German and a Jew?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why I'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving hiding
Behind an old bookshelf...
Lyrics submitted by Jocasta
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Without paying attention to the interpretation... oh fudge it, it's a love song, sure. But it almost sounds like he's saying fuck whatever else thinks, forget the roots everyone's still embedded in. We're in this together, and I'll fight the war. I don't care, because you're worth fighting for. He doesn't give a shit about their 'respective' titles, or their backgrounds, but he wants her to know she shouldn't let go because he's not going anywhere and he's not like the rest of them. Which means she could also be against them simply because of his background as well, what everyone might think, what she's been taught.
That would explain the whole him feeling insecure over the ordeal.
Also, the guitar rifts flippen rock.