"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,
I am
So unsure
Every minute that waits
Every second I'm away
From you
And love
Is a way that
Has no rules
Know that I'm loving you
Even if it's
A fool that waits in vain
Waits in vain
Yesterday it hit me
That we were slipping away
Say you if youi can it's okay
Just like you said way then
Sometime I fall
And I feel like
I don't know the way
Say if you can it's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said
Now
Now my days become long
Okay
I know I'll never feel the same again
So please
Don't let
My lows bring you down
Always know that
I need you
Yes I do
Yes I do oh
Yesterday it hit me
I felt we were slipping away
Say if you can
It's okay
Just like you said way there
Sometime I fall
and I, I feel like
I don't know the way
Won't you say if you can
It's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Oh
My my my my my again
Yesterday it hit me
I felt you were slipping
Away
Say if if you can it's okay
Just like you said way then
Sometime I fall and I feel
I don't know the way
Won't you say if you can
it's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Just like you said way back then
Just like you said
I am
So unsure
Every minute that waits
Every second I'm away
From you
And love
Is a way that
Has no rules
Know that I'm loving you
Even if it's
A fool that waits in vain
Waits in vain
Yesterday it hit me
That we were slipping away
Say you if youi can it's okay
Just like you said way then
Sometime I fall
And I feel like
I don't know the way
Say if you can it's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said
Now
Now my days become long
Okay
I know I'll never feel the same again
So please
Don't let
My lows bring you down
Always know that
I need you
Yes I do
Yes I do oh
Yesterday it hit me
I felt we were slipping away
Say if you can
It's okay
Just like you said way there
Sometime I fall
and I, I feel like
I don't know the way
Won't you say if you can
It's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Oh
My my my my my again
Yesterday it hit me
I felt you were slipping
Away
Say if if you can it's okay
Just like you said way then
Sometime I fall and I feel
I don't know the way
Won't you say if you can
it's okay
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Just like you said then
Just like you said oh
Just like you said way back then
Just like you said
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