"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.
Waits all day for the Sun to dim his brights
Face shinin' amber in the radio lights
It's all that he needs to see
Fire ignites when he turns the key
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
Hands on the wheel, he's a permanent fixture
Reads hot rod mags like Holy Scripture
He ignores the brake pedal like step-daddy's child
Feel him pushing on the gas like a motherless wife
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
Highway birds, sunrise, paradise
Cinderella's morning appetite
Squintin' his eyes and the driver kills his lights
Ignites his stash, he's a Plymouth Satellite
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become,
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
Wonder what it could be like'
Just look then he's gone'
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
Face shinin' amber in the radio lights
It's all that he needs to see
Fire ignites when he turns the key
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
Hands on the wheel, he's a permanent fixture
Reads hot rod mags like Holy Scripture
He ignores the brake pedal like step-daddy's child
Feel him pushing on the gas like a motherless wife
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
Highway birds, sunrise, paradise
Cinderella's morning appetite
Squintin' his eyes and the driver kills his lights
Ignites his stash, he's a Plymouth Satellite
Wonder what it could be like
Just look then he's gone
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become,
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
Wonder what it could be like'
Just look then he's gone'
Pay attention and you might
See just how he makes sparks fly
While you're trying to think of
Why you never could become
Things you dreamed of
Hot night sky he watch sparks
Hot night sky he watch sparks fly
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