"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.
Blue you radiant blue
I don't know how you can stand next to me
You you talk like a noose
And only confuse my perplexity
Now that I'm so sad and not quite right
I could dance all night
I could dance all night
Shake you rattle-snake skin
And become a part of society
Wait on down the highway
To see how far I'll come a-run a-run run running
All that we had salvaged from the fire
Was a waste of time
(But) what a waste of time
Should I trust all the rust that's on TV
The guests with some distaste they disagree
With quite the fashionable dispassion for the dispossessed under-stressed gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
But I don't care if you don't like it or just don't see
Now that we fattened the cow
And set out to plow unknown enemies
"Wow!" shouts the startled crowd "Now now did you see what i did see?"
The ravaged cabbage drifts on dark red skies
And it looks so nice
Gee it looks so nice
Shout just let it on out
Confusion becomes philosophy
Down we're reaching the town where we don't have to stand around and look over our shoulders
Hell i never knew was what we made it
Lets just take it slow in this home on ice
I don't know how you can stand next to me
You you talk like a noose
And only confuse my perplexity
Now that I'm so sad and not quite right
I could dance all night
I could dance all night
Shake you rattle-snake skin
And become a part of society
Wait on down the highway
To see how far I'll come a-run a-run run running
All that we had salvaged from the fire
Was a waste of time
(But) what a waste of time
Should I trust all the rust that's on TV
The guests with some distaste they disagree
With quite the fashionable dispassion for the dispossessed under-stressed gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
But I don't care if you don't like it or just don't see
Now that we fattened the cow
And set out to plow unknown enemies
"Wow!" shouts the startled crowd "Now now did you see what i did see?"
The ravaged cabbage drifts on dark red skies
And it looks so nice
Gee it looks so nice
Shout just let it on out
Confusion becomes philosophy
Down we're reaching the town where we don't have to stand around and look over our shoulders
Hell i never knew was what we made it
Lets just take it slow in this home on ice
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