"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.
Lyrics pending for the remaining parts
Pt. 1 (instrumental)
Pt. 1 backwards (instrumental)
Pt. 2 (instrumental)
Pt. 3:
Person 1: I don't mean to sound like a snob, but that man, worrying about his car, you know what I mean, he's not alive. If you can do what you say, why don't you wake him up.
Person 2: Just tell me what happened.
Person 1: You could ask him, but he couldn't tell you. That''s the point, isn't it? He couldn't tell you.
Person 2: Can you tell me?
Person 1: I can tell you this. In that car there was nothing, see, nothing, just talk. It's fair to say, isn't it, that a man like that doesn't think. He doesn't really feel. He goes through the motions of being human because nobody told him different.
Person 2: Look, you may be the best surgeon in town, but you're not making yourself very clear. What...
Person 1: Oh, hey
Person 2: ...doesn't he think?
Person 1: OK, for all I know he might be a very clever and successful person.
Person 2: Successful in whose terms?
Person 1: In our terms.
Person 2: His terms don't matter?
Person 1: Yes, in some sense they don't matter. I know that sounds awful, I probably don't even mean it. Maybe I have the whole thing wrong. The only thing to do is to try to make things better.
Person 2: In whose terms?
Person 1: Look, I'd like to explain to you about that guy. He's enclosed in himself. He's goes on and on, I get the feeling that he just isn't concerned. Concerned with other people. I mean, everything else is a matter of taste, a matter of opinion. But if anyone can live on this earth and not care about other people.
Person 2: So you cut his head off. The thing you really seem to hold against him is typified by what you did to him.
Person 1: I did nothing to him. He's okay. I put it back on. The head, I mean.
Person2: His head.
Person 1: Yeah, I put the right head back on. In that car I was suffocating. Not just there, lots of times. We're helpless really. You as well.
Person 2: If we are helpless, then we are not responsible. But there is a difference between things. I can hold my breath, but my blood flows regardless.
Person 1: You can hold your breath for a little while, but if you stop the blood flowing, that's for good.
Part 4. (to be continued whenever I get a chance)
Pt. 1 (instrumental)
Pt. 1 backwards (instrumental)
Pt. 2 (instrumental)
Pt. 3:
Person 1: I don't mean to sound like a snob, but that man, worrying about his car, you know what I mean, he's not alive. If you can do what you say, why don't you wake him up.
Person 2: Just tell me what happened.
Person 1: You could ask him, but he couldn't tell you. That''s the point, isn't it? He couldn't tell you.
Person 2: Can you tell me?
Person 1: I can tell you this. In that car there was nothing, see, nothing, just talk. It's fair to say, isn't it, that a man like that doesn't think. He doesn't really feel. He goes through the motions of being human because nobody told him different.
Person 2: Look, you may be the best surgeon in town, but you're not making yourself very clear. What...
Person 1: Oh, hey
Person 2: ...doesn't he think?
Person 1: OK, for all I know he might be a very clever and successful person.
Person 2: Successful in whose terms?
Person 1: In our terms.
Person 2: His terms don't matter?
Person 1: Yes, in some sense they don't matter. I know that sounds awful, I probably don't even mean it. Maybe I have the whole thing wrong. The only thing to do is to try to make things better.
Person 2: In whose terms?
Person 1: Look, I'd like to explain to you about that guy. He's enclosed in himself. He's goes on and on, I get the feeling that he just isn't concerned. Concerned with other people. I mean, everything else is a matter of taste, a matter of opinion. But if anyone can live on this earth and not care about other people.
Person 2: So you cut his head off. The thing you really seem to hold against him is typified by what you did to him.
Person 1: I did nothing to him. He's okay. I put it back on. The head, I mean.
Person2: His head.
Person 1: Yeah, I put the right head back on. In that car I was suffocating. Not just there, lots of times. We're helpless really. You as well.
Person 2: If we are helpless, then we are not responsible. But there is a difference between things. I can hold my breath, but my blood flows regardless.
Person 1: You can hold your breath for a little while, but if you stop the blood flowing, that's for good.
Part 4. (to be continued whenever I get a chance)
Lyrics submitted by inpraiseoffolly
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