"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.
The outlander walked into town, coverd in gore
He knew he could not wait much longer, he needed more
Death
Pain
Terror
Blood
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains weill allways show for all time
Wasting no time he began defiling whores
He would be the last man they felt, a carnivore
Tear
Rape
Ravage
Maim
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one knows
Their bloodstains will always show for all time
Firing, loaded rifle, never ending killing spree
Slashing with machette, body parts are the debris
There is no escape, he holds your fate as the death rate climbs to the
fullest extent
One more town, slowly going down
This is the coming of endless torment
Unburied victims lie, blood soaking into the sand
Remains of the slain, a dead body wasteland
There is no escape, he holds your fate as the death rate climbs to the
fullest extent
One man left, sheriff bereft, faces the stranger with intent
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains will always sho for all
Time
Expired
Big iron
Both die
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains will always sho for all
Slain
He knew he could not wait much longer, he needed more
Death
Pain
Terror
Blood
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains weill allways show for all time
Wasting no time he began defiling whores
He would be the last man they felt, a carnivore
Tear
Rape
Ravage
Maim
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one knows
Their bloodstains will always show for all time
Firing, loaded rifle, never ending killing spree
Slashing with machette, body parts are the debris
There is no escape, he holds your fate as the death rate climbs to the
fullest extent
One more town, slowly going down
This is the coming of endless torment
Unburied victims lie, blood soaking into the sand
Remains of the slain, a dead body wasteland
There is no escape, he holds your fate as the death rate climbs to the
fullest extent
One man left, sheriff bereft, faces the stranger with intent
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains will always sho for all
Time
Expired
Big iron
Both die
On the high plain they lost their lives
Hundreds were slain
Why they died no one will know
Their bloodstains will always sho for all
Slain
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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yeahhh, that the sit right, there is about a motherfucking genius serial killer, who is mad in anger, and he craves for flesh blood, and coming from town to town, not caring if he kills whores, or inocents childs, yeahhhh this song is slow, but the lirics are brutal, not the most brutal, but what the bleeding cock it rocks and that`s all...
actually this song is based on the movie high plains drifter staring clint eastwood, watch the movie, and the song meaning will get really clear, it's obviously desribing the protagonist of the movie, Called the stranger, he also moves from town to town.