"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.
What would you say
If I said this year has been
Only a dream that only we have been in
No one else can sense all the harm I've done
And it has always been our hands in a melded one
If there's a difference
Then I don't know
Between miles and a stone's throw
All that matters is what can mend us
You can be silent as you want to
No one can punish me like I do
What would you say
If I said I found the truth
We'll turn it around
I'll stay here and wait for you
If there's a difference
Then I don't know
Between miles and a stone's throw
All that matters is what can mend us
If I said this year has been
Only a dream that only we have been in
No one else can sense all the harm I've done
And it has always been our hands in a melded one
If there's a difference
Then I don't know
Between miles and a stone's throw
All that matters is what can mend us
You can be silent as you want to
No one can punish me like I do
What would you say
If I said I found the truth
We'll turn it around
I'll stay here and wait for you
If there's a difference
Then I don't know
Between miles and a stone's throw
All that matters is what can mend us
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