"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.
And in the end we shall achieve in time
The thing they call divine
When all the stars'll smile for me
When all is well and well is all for all
And forever after
Maybe in the meantime wait and see
(Chorus)
We love the all the all of you
Where lands are green and skies are blue
When all in all we're just like you
We love the all of you
And when I cry for me I cry for you
With tears of holy joy
For all the days still to come
And did I ever say I'd never play
Or fly toward the sun
Maybe in the meantime, something's gone
(Chorus)
Well that sounds fine so I'll see you sunshine
Give my love to the future of the humankind
Okay, okay, it's not okay.
While it's on my mind there's a girl that fits the crime
For a future love dream that I'm still to find
But in the meantime.
(Chorus)
The thing they call divine
When all the stars'll smile for me
When all is well and well is all for all
And forever after
Maybe in the meantime wait and see
(Chorus)
We love the all the all of you
Where lands are green and skies are blue
When all in all we're just like you
We love the all of you
And when I cry for me I cry for you
With tears of holy joy
For all the days still to come
And did I ever say I'd never play
Or fly toward the sun
Maybe in the meantime, something's gone
(Chorus)
Well that sounds fine so I'll see you sunshine
Give my love to the future of the humankind
Okay, okay, it's not okay.
While it's on my mind there's a girl that fits the crime
For a future love dream that I'm still to find
But in the meantime.
(Chorus)
Lyrics submitted by Mopnugget
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It's about God - the 'all of you'. And yes in the meantime love what he gave you, including your future love crime girl (love being the closest to God you'll ever get on Earth).