"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.
Well now Crow Jane don’t make no sense to me
She left me hanging from the poplar tree
No I never ever felt so free
Look at, mama, what you’re doin’ to me
'Cause it ain’t no difference which way I smile
I ain’t good lookin’ from a quarter mile
Once had a women called me angel child
My reputation keeps me on trial
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Crow Jane’s the strangest thing that ever talked
Lips of honey but her tongue's of chalk
Feet may be crooked but they sure can walk
Took my money left me in shock
Got so many matches that it makes me sick
So many habits that I just can’t kick
So many women that I just can’t trick
She burnt me like a candle stick
But who’s gonna save me from myself?
Gotta lay the blame on somebody else
But somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must've lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Well Crow Jane ain’t nothing but a painful case
She left me sucking on my own disgrace
She’s off trucking at a cheatin’ pace
And a lawless life is all that I can embrace
Dress like a preacher so I can’t be found
Chase Crow Jane from town to town
I smell her brain so she much be around
Just like my pain the sun goes down
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
She left me hanging from the poplar tree
No I never ever felt so free
Look at, mama, what you’re doin’ to me
'Cause it ain’t no difference which way I smile
I ain’t good lookin’ from a quarter mile
Once had a women called me angel child
My reputation keeps me on trial
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Crow Jane’s the strangest thing that ever talked
Lips of honey but her tongue's of chalk
Feet may be crooked but they sure can walk
Took my money left me in shock
Got so many matches that it makes me sick
So many habits that I just can’t kick
So many women that I just can’t trick
She burnt me like a candle stick
But who’s gonna save me from myself?
Gotta lay the blame on somebody else
But somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must've lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Well Crow Jane ain’t nothing but a painful case
She left me sucking on my own disgrace
She’s off trucking at a cheatin’ pace
And a lawless life is all that I can embrace
Dress like a preacher so I can’t be found
Chase Crow Jane from town to town
I smell her brain so she much be around
Just like my pain the sun goes down
But who’s gonna save me from myself
Gotta lay the blame on someone else
Somehow I ain’t got no hope
'Cause I’m still runnin’ from the sheriff’s rope
My shoes don’t fit me 'cause they're filled with dope
Crow Jane quit me and I just can’t cope
But all I know is that I’ll still run
And pledge allegiance to the settin’ sun
I must’ve lost 'cause Crow Jane won
I’ll never learn from anything I’ve done
Lyrics submitted by Ves1011, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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