"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.
Past the Atlantic gaps and the spaces it has
To a perfect home, to a finer place
We all counteract with visions intact
With great impossibles, and most crowded doorways
I have the greatest plan involving everyone else
We all, and a map of muses
Travel to stars scarred with wars
We'll never be apart again
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
To a perfect home, to a finer place
We all counteract with visions intact
With great impossibles, and most crowded doorways
I have the greatest plan involving everyone else
We all, and a map of muses
Travel to stars scarred with wars
We'll never be apart again
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
Hold on to your faces
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umm i believe the following lyric is incorrect: "from a birthing home to a find a place"
i think it should be "to a perfect home, to a finer place"
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