"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.
I can tell
A hurtful kid
By the way
A hurtful kid
Switching on
A heartbreaker is stunned
Just because (a hurtful kid)
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
My stomach hurts, I can't sleep
What the hell's inside of me
Makes me feel this way
Almost every day
It's the way that it goes
It's such a trip that I can't hide
How close I am to suicide
Get those records out
That's what it's all about
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
A hurtful kid
By the way
A hurtful kid
Switching on
A heartbreaker is stunned
Just because (a hurtful kid)
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
My stomach hurts, I can't sleep
What the hell's inside of me
Makes me feel this way
Almost every day
It's the way that it goes
It's such a trip that I can't hide
How close I am to suicide
Get those records out
That's what it's all about
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
It's the way that it goes
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