"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.
It feels like I knew Robert Blink
Even though he didn't know his name
He was so nearly over twenty-one
That he could never feel the same
[Repeat: x 2]
Well, sometimes I wish that I could see
But it was you instead of me
At the eleventh hour
The trumpets of yesterday are blowing for here today
I only hope you can rest in peace
And cannot hear the tune they play
[Repeat: x 2]
Because we're all tired of hearing that song
Though they try to make you sing along
At the eleventh hour
Don't you know you don't need this way?
Can't you see, don't you know you have to stay?
[Repeat: x 2]
Well, sometimes I wish that I could see
But it was you instead of me
At the eleventh hour
If there's more than this, I'll write and let you know
If there's more than this from the seeds we sow
[Repeat: x 4]
Well sometimes I wish that I could see
And maybe it will be
At the eleventh hour
Don't you know you don't need this way?
Can't you see, don't you know you have to stay?
[Repeat: x 4]
From the seeds we sow
Even though he didn't know his name
He was so nearly over twenty-one
That he could never feel the same
[Repeat: x 2]
Well, sometimes I wish that I could see
But it was you instead of me
At the eleventh hour
The trumpets of yesterday are blowing for here today
I only hope you can rest in peace
And cannot hear the tune they play
[Repeat: x 2]
Because we're all tired of hearing that song
Though they try to make you sing along
At the eleventh hour
Don't you know you don't need this way?
Can't you see, don't you know you have to stay?
[Repeat: x 2]
Well, sometimes I wish that I could see
But it was you instead of me
At the eleventh hour
If there's more than this, I'll write and let you know
If there's more than this from the seeds we sow
[Repeat: x 4]
Well sometimes I wish that I could see
And maybe it will be
At the eleventh hour
Don't you know you don't need this way?
Can't you see, don't you know you have to stay?
[Repeat: x 4]
From the seeds we sow
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