"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.
Nothin' like walkig down avenue a
But it' not like any other day
'Cause I feel you more than ever now
Throwing me off somehow
Nothin' like a girl with an attitude
But take it all away she don't know what to do
Now I got you in my fantasy
Over and over, humbling me
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
Well here's that other side of me
Where I sneak into your room and watch you sleep
And you bring out the high school in me
I can't pay attention
Give me detention
Living in the moment just kills the time
I want to find you and make you mine
My heart's a boombox beating all over town
It goes bum bum, bum bum
You got a way of finding me
Add it up
Can't you see
If this is your way of getting through to me
You're tripping me up again
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
I don't know what's come over me
'Cause I feel so differently
You got a way of finding me
Do the math
It's meant to be
If this is your way of getting through to me
Well you're tripping me out again
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
There's no point in askin' why
'Cause baby you're makin' me high
Blindsided
You rocked my world and I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And I like it
But it' not like any other day
'Cause I feel you more than ever now
Throwing me off somehow
Nothin' like a girl with an attitude
But take it all away she don't know what to do
Now I got you in my fantasy
Over and over, humbling me
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
Well here's that other side of me
Where I sneak into your room and watch you sleep
And you bring out the high school in me
I can't pay attention
Give me detention
Living in the moment just kills the time
I want to find you and make you mine
My heart's a boombox beating all over town
It goes bum bum, bum bum
You got a way of finding me
Add it up
Can't you see
If this is your way of getting through to me
You're tripping me up again
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
I don't know what's come over me
'Cause I feel so differently
You got a way of finding me
Do the math
It's meant to be
If this is your way of getting through to me
Well you're tripping me out again
You got a way of finding me
Do the math,
It's meant to be
But how can this be good for me
If you never know where or when
I got blindsided
So used to seeing things my own way
And I liked it
But that just don't mean anything
Now I'm blindsided
You rocked my world I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And it's not fair
There's no point in askin' why
'Cause baby you're makin' me high
Blindsided
You rocked my world and I never saw it coming
Got nowhere to hide
And I like it
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cool song... can't believe this is the first comment on it!!