"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.
I found myself wrong again
Starin' out my window
Wonderin' what it is I should have said
I found myself at home again
Waitin' for the after call
The fallout that feels like such a mess
Oh I can only be myself
I'm sorry that's hell for you
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
So I listen to you complain and then
I bite my tongue in vain again
As I let it all just slowly settle in
Such a pretty picture that you paint
I'm so vow while your insane
Funny how your eyes see thick not thin
Oh I can only be myself
Your lookin' for someone else
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
You know how to give but you can't take it
It's all just a waste now you can save it
No matter what I do
Is never good enough, never good enough
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
Is nothing new
Save your breath cause here comes the truth
I'm over the drama of you
And that's something new
Starin' out my window
Wonderin' what it is I should have said
I found myself at home again
Waitin' for the after call
The fallout that feels like such a mess
Oh I can only be myself
I'm sorry that's hell for you
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
So I listen to you complain and then
I bite my tongue in vain again
As I let it all just slowly settle in
Such a pretty picture that you paint
I'm so vow while your insane
Funny how your eyes see thick not thin
Oh I can only be myself
Your lookin' for someone else
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
You know how to give but you can't take it
It's all just a waste now you can save it
No matter what I do
Is never good enough, never good enough
Hey, so what's my damage today
Don't let me get in your way
Let it out like you always do
The trouble between me and you
Is nothing new
Is nothing new
Save your breath cause here comes the truth
I'm over the drama of you
And that's something new
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@ toolostinyou
don't you think that it ends different this time? it looks to me like she realised that she is over him and got enough of all the fighting and the following.