"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.
so if you'd walk a thousand miles
until you'd reach our home tonight
we'd set fire for everything
so what do you think?
through heavy snowfall and bitter cold
I hope you're packed in solid clothing
your shiny mooses don't need to rest
it's for the best
maybe it is true, love's to bleed
true love is to need
sometimes it flows to the sea
that's why you always come back to me
with jam and coffee and toasted bread
on sunday morning, we'll talk and sit
and we're surprised that we are blessed
such happiness
you're so attractive
you salty smell's my favourite flavour
I live to tell that, by tonight, you will be there
come, I'm in need
true love
to need, we have agreed
true love don't need no receipt
until you'd reach our home tonight
we'd set fire for everything
so what do you think?
through heavy snowfall and bitter cold
I hope you're packed in solid clothing
your shiny mooses don't need to rest
it's for the best
maybe it is true, love's to bleed
true love is to need
sometimes it flows to the sea
that's why you always come back to me
with jam and coffee and toasted bread
on sunday morning, we'll talk and sit
and we're surprised that we are blessed
such happiness
you're so attractive
you salty smell's my favourite flavour
I live to tell that, by tonight, you will be there
come, I'm in need
true love
to need, we have agreed
true love don't need no receipt
Lyrics submitted by delial
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