"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'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
I'm lookin' down the barrel of Friday night
I'm ridin' on a river of freeway lights
Goodbye city I'm country bound
'Til Monday rolls around
Gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
Workin' in the grind is an uphill road
Punchin' that clock and carryin' that load
I bust it all week and then I'm free
The weekend belongs to me
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
So give me some fresh air, give me that farm
And give me some time with you in my arms
Far away from the hustle and the pressure and the noise
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass, the dirt, the gravel all meet
I'm goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul (you betcha)
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
I'm goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
I'm lookin' down the barrel of Friday night
I'm ridin' on a river of freeway lights
Goodbye city I'm country bound
'Til Monday rolls around
Gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
Workin' in the grind is an uphill road
Punchin' that clock and carryin' that load
I bust it all week and then I'm free
The weekend belongs to me
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
Goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
So give me some fresh air, give me that farm
And give me some time with you in my arms
Far away from the hustle and the pressure and the noise
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass, the dirt, the gravel all meet
I'm goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul (you betcha)
I'm gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet
Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet
I'm goin' back to the well, gonna visit old friends
And feed my soul where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Where the blacktop ends
Lyrics submitted by Manderzterz
Where the Blacktop Ends Lyrics as written by James Allen Shamblin Steve Noel Wariner
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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