"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 walking past liquor stores and immigrant homes...check into cash...and men with eyes like ghosts. as boys we were taught to dream in stacks and rows...cause to dream any bigger is to dig yourself a hole..one bigger than you're already in from the moment your life begins. I'm soacked to the bone at lawson arms at 3 am. this cold world has convinced me to betrayed myself again. some faceless men. shivering. betrayal I am one of them. never again. I feel the loneliness of the long distance runner now. this sterility is rotting me out. can't live in service. I'm dropping out. dropping out of tomorrow morning's white washed suburban schemes. billboard masturbation: satisfaction guaranteed. I am the 4 am arcade street white bloodshot witness. I'm just another kid in the chorus. an empty street corner prophet. grimy hands clawing at the gutter on the eve of letting go of crimes against my soul. they planted their seed...but I won't let them...wont let them tear through me. 'cause I'm a real cool killer with a killer blow. a lock-jawed apprentice to my guts of gold plastice surgery to fit the mold. they'll get you when you're ugly and you're feeling alone. in this modern life...cheap and disconnected...where there is a siege going on and the besieged will be the last to know that the race we are running is a joke, and I'm a dropout. drop-out.
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