"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.
Heaven's not enough
If when you get there
Just another blue
And heaven's not enough
You think you've found it
And it loses you
You've thought of all there is
But not enough
And it loses you in a cloud
"There" most everything is nothin'
That it seems
"Where" you see the things you only Wanna see
I'd fly away
To a higher plane
To say words I resist
To float away
To sigh
To breathe.... forget
And heaven's not enough
If when I'm there I don't remember you
And heaven does enough
You think you know it
And it uses you
I saw so many things
But like a dream
Always losing me in a cloud
Cause I couldn't cry
Cause I turned away
Couldn't see the score
Didn't know the pain
Of leaving yesterday really far behind
In another life
In another dream
By a different name
Gave it all away
For a memory
And a quiet lie
And I felt the face
Of a cold tonight
Still don't know the score
But I know the pain
Of leaving everything really far behind
And if I could cry
And if I could live what truth I did then Take me there
Heaven goodbye
If when you get there
Just another blue
And heaven's not enough
You think you've found it
And it loses you
You've thought of all there is
But not enough
And it loses you in a cloud
"There" most everything is nothin'
That it seems
"Where" you see the things you only Wanna see
I'd fly away
To a higher plane
To say words I resist
To float away
To sigh
To breathe.... forget
And heaven's not enough
If when I'm there I don't remember you
And heaven does enough
You think you know it
And it uses you
I saw so many things
But like a dream
Always losing me in a cloud
Cause I couldn't cry
Cause I turned away
Couldn't see the score
Didn't know the pain
Of leaving yesterday really far behind
In another life
In another dream
By a different name
Gave it all away
For a memory
And a quiet lie
And I felt the face
Of a cold tonight
Still don't know the score
But I know the pain
Of leaving everything really far behind
And if I could cry
And if I could live what truth I did then Take me there
Heaven goodbye
Lyrics submitted by xcomp
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