"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.
Yeah, you can see the girl coming
From a mile away
She got her big wheels turning
She got Oklahoma plates
She's got the sunroof up
She's got her window rolled down
And you ought to feel the ground shaking
When she comes to town
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
She's got bucket seats, fully customized
"In Your Wildest Dreams" painted on the side
It was built to run, she was built to show
She's got a Haggard hit playing on the stereo
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
Big ol' truck
Ten feet tall, ten feet wide
It's a big ol' truck
Here she come again, man
From a mile away
She got her big wheels turning
She got Oklahoma plates
She's got the sunroof up
She's got her window rolled down
And you ought to feel the ground shaking
When she comes to town
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
She's got bucket seats, fully customized
"In Your Wildest Dreams" painted on the side
It was built to run, she was built to show
She's got a Haggard hit playing on the stereo
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
Yeah, I'm in love with a girl in a four-wheel drive
Chrome steel bumpers and red step side
She has a large time in a large machine
Man, I wonder how she gets up in that thing
Cast a big shadow sitting in the sun
She's got it revved up, rocking, ready to run
And someday soon, I'm gonna climb right up
Take a little ride in her big ol' truck
Big ol' truck
Ten feet tall, ten feet wide
It's a big ol' truck
Here she come again, man
Lyrics submitted by whiskeygirl11
Big Ol' Truck Lyrics as written by Toby Keith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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