"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.
Love is a flipping, rolling riddle
Love is smiling when you hear the giggle
Those angels giggle when they know you're smiling
Love is running in an open field
Love is smiling at the happy way you feel
When you know you're smiling
So how can you keep on smiling
When you see yourself in the mirror smiling
Just about to say the name
Of the girl that makes you smile
Love is thinking of when you die
When she hears your name and she'll start to cry
She'll remember you smiling
Love is living in a magic land
Love is thinking of how she'll hold your hand
And you'll both be smiling
So how can you keep on smiling
When you see yourself in the mirror smiling
Just about to say the name
Of the girl that makes you smile
Love is smiling when you hear the giggle
Those angels giggle when they know you're smiling
Love is running in an open field
Love is smiling at the happy way you feel
When you know you're smiling
So how can you keep on smiling
When you see yourself in the mirror smiling
Just about to say the name
Of the girl that makes you smile
Love is thinking of when you die
When she hears your name and she'll start to cry
She'll remember you smiling
Love is living in a magic land
Love is thinking of how she'll hold your hand
And you'll both be smiling
So how can you keep on smiling
When you see yourself in the mirror smiling
Just about to say the name
Of the girl that makes you smile
Lyrics submitted by agnamaracs
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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