"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.
Carry you in my breath
I'm going nowhere
Waiting for the future to begin
Every single step is just another reason
To forget who I've become
Carry you with all my regret
How can you change your mind
After all the dreams that we once shared?
When will I disappear into the day's design?
Ever being, always seeing, never dying
Wrapped around a rain cloud that passes the sky
Just moving on
Carry me in your breath
I've never needed anything but love, broken love
Carry me with all your promise
How can I turn away
After all the things that we once shared?
Never wanted to throw it away
Pretending that you were never my friend
I can no longer stumble around
Reaching for a dream that could have been
When will we disappear into the days design?
Ever being, always seeing, never dying
Wrapped around a rain cloud that passes the sky
Just moving on
I'm going nowhere
Waiting for the future to begin
Every single step is just another reason
To forget who I've become
Carry you with all my regret
How can you change your mind
After all the dreams that we once shared?
When will I disappear into the day's design?
Ever being, always seeing, never dying
Wrapped around a rain cloud that passes the sky
Just moving on
Carry me in your breath
I've never needed anything but love, broken love
Carry me with all your promise
How can I turn away
After all the things that we once shared?
Never wanted to throw it away
Pretending that you were never my friend
I can no longer stumble around
Reaching for a dream that could have been
When will we disappear into the days design?
Ever being, always seeing, never dying
Wrapped around a rain cloud that passes the sky
Just moving on
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I'm pretty sure it's Puget sound not "muted sound" considering Jeremy lives in and around Seattle where the Puget sound resides.