"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.
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
Holding hands, skipping like a stone
On our way, to see what we have done
The first to speak, is the first to lie
The children cross, their hearts and hope to die
Bite your tongue, swear to keep your mouth shut
Ask yourself will I burn in hell?
Then write it down and cast it in the well
There they are, the mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale into fire wood
Fan the flames with a little lie
Then turn your cheek until the fire dies
The skin it peels like the truth away
What it was, I will never say
Bite your tongue, swear to keep
Keep your mouth shut
Make up something
Make up something good
Holding hands skipping like a stone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
Burn the witch
Holding hands, skipping like a stone
On our way, to see what we have done
The first to speak, is the first to lie
The children cross, their hearts and hope to die
Bite your tongue, swear to keep your mouth shut
Ask yourself will I burn in hell?
Then write it down and cast it in the well
There they are, the mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale into fire wood
Fan the flames with a little lie
Then turn your cheek until the fire dies
The skin it peels like the truth away
What it was, I will never say
Bite your tongue, swear to keep
Keep your mouth shut
Make up something
Make up something good
Holding hands skipping like a stone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
Burn the witch, burn to ash and bone
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