"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.
Hung up and bent on a stranger
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
Now I can't get near it
Don't want to hear it
My cover's blown
I walked in the rain like a drone
All the way to Marquette
The infinite pet
I got something to tell you
Far outside the black and white
Aw I got something I want to tell you
But who will receive it tonight
When I got up I cut my neckrug off
Resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed
Cursing the day I met
The infinite pet
Comes when you pirouette
Hung up and bent on a stranger
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
I sat back I put my neckshirt on
Resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned
Just like that day I met
The infinite pet
Cheaper than all your threats
Comes when you pirouette
The the the the infinite pet
The infinite
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
Now I can't get near it
Don't want to hear it
My cover's blown
I walked in the rain like a drone
All the way to Marquette
The infinite pet
I got something to tell you
Far outside the black and white
Aw I got something I want to tell you
But who will receive it tonight
When I got up I cut my neckrug off
Resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed
Cursing the day I met
The infinite pet
Comes when you pirouette
Hung up and bent on a stranger
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
I sat back I put my neckshirt on
Resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned
Just like that day I met
The infinite pet
Cheaper than all your threats
Comes when you pirouette
The the the the infinite pet
The infinite
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The Infinite Pet Lyrics as written by Britt Daniel
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I think this is about a girlfriend who makes him feel way too comfortable, causing him to drop his guard too much and slip up. I also get the feeling that either the girl is fake in her complete acceptance of him (she might be trying to get something out of him--attention, money, etc) or he's just really paranoid that the situation is too good to be true. In coat-check, you give up what kept you warm outside, just as you let your guard down around people who love you. Neckrug: a rug is something people walk on, so I think that "cut my neckrug off" means "I covered up sensitive/emotional parts of me in the relationship," probably coming off as a jerk, which is why he would be blamed & scoffed at for being cold. Neckshirt: a shirt is something people use to convey a certain image of themselves, so "put my neckshirt on" could mean that he gives it all/tries to be the best & attractive to this girl, which could bring about feelings of being failed & conned because he still isn't sure she genuinely accepts & loves him.