"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.
Asleep at the wheel
You didn't know till its too late till now
Divided by the things you could not see
The land of the free
There is no safe heaven now
Because you don't want to try
You don't want to die
You've got everything in life
But the answer's
Why you don't really know how it's gonna be
So pretend it'll be ok
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face as nobody
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
A rat in a cage
Accept the things you can't deny, do you?
Recognize the lie you've become
Like everyone
You're afraid to face the truth
And now you can't get away
The fortune of fame
And the answers you seek all will slip away
You don't really care
You don't have a prayer
Your escape will be your grave
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face says casualty
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
So you just give up
Yea you just give in
You gotta sleep in your dream at night
At the life that might have been
When you've had enough
How much can you take?
Just try to be yourself
Everything will be ok
It will never be ok
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face as nobody
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
You didn't know till its too late till now
Divided by the things you could not see
The land of the free
There is no safe heaven now
Because you don't want to try
You don't want to die
You've got everything in life
But the answer's
Why you don't really know how it's gonna be
So pretend it'll be ok
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face as nobody
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
A rat in a cage
Accept the things you can't deny, do you?
Recognize the lie you've become
Like everyone
You're afraid to face the truth
And now you can't get away
The fortune of fame
And the answers you seek all will slip away
You don't really care
You don't have a prayer
Your escape will be your grave
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face says casualty
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
So you just give up
Yea you just give in
You gotta sleep in your dream at night
At the life that might have been
When you've had enough
How much can you take?
Just try to be yourself
Everything will be ok
It will never be ok
Look who you are just a member of society
In a tragic harmony
Pretending it will be ok
Look who your are just a product of a history
Another face as nobody
Pretending it will be ok
Look who you are
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