"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 the beautiful all around
And the waves make thunder made of sound
And I hear you
And I hear you
And the pregnant part behind my heart did too
And it's all around
And it's all around
And I hear you, yeah
And I hear you
And the angry parts that made me sharp were smoothed
And it's all around
And it's all around
On the faith of a notion
When I heard something shine
Pulled a face from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
There were waves made of lightning
That were perfect in size
Pulled my faith from the ocean
When I fell to the sky, yeah
In a moment I was hypnotized
Saw the future pass before the eye
And all the happy endings
The places that you send me
In a moment I was hypnotized
Saw the future pass before the eye
And all the happy endings
The places that you send me
My hands were on fire
My hands were on fire
And the near had seduced me
Even more than the far
Oh, my hands were on fire
My hands were on fire
Oh, God, they were...
Oh, God, they were...
On the faith of a notion
When I heard something shine
Pulled a face from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
There were waves made of lightning
That were perfect in size
Pulled my faith from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
Yeah, oh yeah
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah
Woo
And the waves make thunder made of sound
And I hear you
And I hear you
And the pregnant part behind my heart did too
And it's all around
And it's all around
And I hear you, yeah
And I hear you
And the angry parts that made me sharp were smoothed
And it's all around
And it's all around
On the faith of a notion
When I heard something shine
Pulled a face from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
There were waves made of lightning
That were perfect in size
Pulled my faith from the ocean
When I fell to the sky, yeah
In a moment I was hypnotized
Saw the future pass before the eye
And all the happy endings
The places that you send me
In a moment I was hypnotized
Saw the future pass before the eye
And all the happy endings
The places that you send me
My hands were on fire
My hands were on fire
And the near had seduced me
Even more than the far
Oh, my hands were on fire
My hands were on fire
Oh, God, they were...
Oh, God, they were...
On the faith of a notion
When I heard something shine
Pulled a face from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
There were waves made of lightning
That were perfect in size
Pulled my faith from the ocean
When I fell to the sky
Yeah, oh yeah
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah
Woo
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