"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.
New Hampshire
I saw a modest dream
The kind that can't speak up
And lost before it's let out
In the north we hold our tongues
But down here I believe
When you pull your hair back it's so easy to see
This has not been thought through
There are things that we've done that we cannot undo
There are things I can't hear when we're telling the truth
At a table out in Bethel
When I was thirteen
The criminals were saying
Liked how I was silent
The cold was the container
For the sparseness of our speech
The expression in our hands
Was all that we'd need
But down here I believe
That I made a big deal with a girl that can't bleed
Now I see red and black
And evening that kills I want to take it back
An evening that kills and I can't take it back
I'm going home back to New Hampshire
I'm so determined
To lay in lakes and see my sisters
I will hit my brother and hold my mother
This probably won't work out
We might not live forever
While there's nothing to confess
Please pay attention
And I know that it's brief
There's not nearly enough in one night to have seen
What you had in your hand
Was much more than the gold that I let go to grab
So much more than the gold that I let go to grab
I saw a modest dream
The kind that can't speak up
And lost before it's let out
In the north we hold our tongues
But down here I believe
When you pull your hair back it's so easy to see
This has not been thought through
There are things that we've done that we cannot undo
There are things I can't hear when we're telling the truth
At a table out in Bethel
When I was thirteen
The criminals were saying
Liked how I was silent
The cold was the container
For the sparseness of our speech
The expression in our hands
Was all that we'd need
But down here I believe
That I made a big deal with a girl that can't bleed
Now I see red and black
And evening that kills I want to take it back
An evening that kills and I can't take it back
I'm going home back to New Hampshire
I'm so determined
To lay in lakes and see my sisters
I will hit my brother and hold my mother
This probably won't work out
We might not live forever
While there's nothing to confess
Please pay attention
And I know that it's brief
There's not nearly enough in one night to have seen
What you had in your hand
Was much more than the gold that I let go to grab
So much more than the gold that I let go to grab
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From Matt Pond:
Growing up in New Hampshire, we were raised on restraint.
My friends who lived across the Connecticut River in Vermont were even more muffled. Most of their parents were farmers and didn’t want to hear the brays or neighs of anything beyond the barn. We would keep to ourselves even when were together. If we were going to listen to something, it was The Beatles or the Kinks or the Talking Heads.
The song New Hampshire partially contends with that quiet. A minor mafia character once said, in so many words, that he appreciated how I knew to shut up. (In my book, this ranks as the number one compliment of all time)