"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.
I've got wine & so do you
Mine came with a cork
I wish yours did too
Everyone just loves you so
Well hurray!
Now you know where to go
In my head you're all brand new
I guess you're really all the same
In my head you're all brand new
Tell your new boy where i came
In my head you're all brand new
I just didn't want what you gave
In my head you're all brand new
Go & find yourself another slave
There you are
Ooohh you're so in love, just like juliette
Well guess what?
That's one thing that you can for-fucking-get
Tears from the sky
In pools of pain
Well baby tonite, i'm gonna go & dance in the rain
In my head you're all brand new
I guess you're really all the same
In my head you're all brand new
Tell your new boy where i came
In my head you're all brand new
Take that broken pussy elsewhere
In my head you're all brand new
Save it baby, i don't care
Mine came with a cork
I wish yours did too
Everyone just loves you so
Well hurray!
Now you know where to go
In my head you're all brand new
I guess you're really all the same
In my head you're all brand new
Tell your new boy where i came
In my head you're all brand new
I just didn't want what you gave
In my head you're all brand new
Go & find yourself another slave
There you are
Ooohh you're so in love, just like juliette
Well guess what?
That's one thing that you can for-fucking-get
Tears from the sky
In pools of pain
Well baby tonite, i'm gonna go & dance in the rain
In my head you're all brand new
I guess you're really all the same
In my head you're all brand new
Tell your new boy where i came
In my head you're all brand new
Take that broken pussy elsewhere
In my head you're all brand new
Save it baby, i don't care
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