"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.
Ain't no doubt about it
I can't wait to get home to you
(I gotta get home, yeah, uh, uh, come on.)
Connected with my baby
Just jammin online with you
(online, online, online)
Here in my room we are as one
(together you and me, together you and me)
Hours connect
As we switch on (switch on)
[Chorus]
She's my best kept secret
My internet girl (my internet girl)
She's my one and only
And I ain't tellin' the world (my internet girl)
She's my best kept secret
Hooked up all night with that girl
(my internet girl)
She's my one and only, my internet girl
(my internet girl)
My internet girl, my internet girl.
Shufflin' through my windows
Gotta find my way back to you
(I gotta find away, gotta find a way)
(I gotta find a way, gotta find a way)
You left me mail in the inbox
Thinkin' about what we should do
(I will type again girlfriend, so tell me, tell me what you want to do)
You left me the password to your heart
(yeah, that's it. I got it.)
No lookin' back we clicked from the start
I want to let you know
She's mine
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
I can't wait to get home to you
(I gotta get home, yeah, uh, uh, come on.)
Connected with my baby
Just jammin online with you
(online, online, online)
Here in my room we are as one
(together you and me, together you and me)
Hours connect
As we switch on (switch on)
[Chorus]
She's my best kept secret
My internet girl (my internet girl)
She's my one and only
And I ain't tellin' the world (my internet girl)
She's my best kept secret
Hooked up all night with that girl
(my internet girl)
She's my one and only, my internet girl
(my internet girl)
My internet girl, my internet girl.
Shufflin' through my windows
Gotta find my way back to you
(I gotta find away, gotta find a way)
(I gotta find a way, gotta find a way)
You left me mail in the inbox
Thinkin' about what we should do
(I will type again girlfriend, so tell me, tell me what you want to do)
You left me the password to your heart
(yeah, that's it. I got it.)
No lookin' back we clicked from the start
I want to let you know
She's mine
[Chorus:Repeat x2]
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