"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.
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on thames-side
Couldn't stop shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
Run to the window and call out my name
We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain
From the rain
From the rain
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
When everyone else is hiding
Rainy sundays drunk at two
You'll whisper sweet lies to me
And one of them will be true
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
The gloom of the city at evening is still
You whisper come to me
And I always will
Always will
Always will
All the rain in this town
And still the sky is blue
Saint james square is teeming with doves
And that's what set me free
Across the darkening city
To an attic room for two
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
I counted all the lights
They don't shine as bright
They don't pierce the night
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on thames-side
Couldn't stop shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
Run to the window and call out my name
We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain
From the rain
From the rain
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
When everyone else is hiding
Rainy sundays drunk at two
You'll whisper sweet lies to me
And one of them will be true
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
The gloom of the city at evening is still
You whisper come to me
And I always will
Always will
Always will
All the rain in this town
And still the sky is blue
Saint james square is teeming with doves
And that's what set me free
Across the darkening city
To an attic room for two
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
I counted all the lights
They don't shine as bright
They don't pierce the night
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
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