"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.
Hot summer, what a bummer
Me oh my, think I'm going to,
Pull a sicky, do runner,
Talk talking to my leader
SUMMER FEVER, WHAT A BLEEDER
Free and easy, easily free-er
Live for the reason, the reason is sure to amaze
Hold out for weekends and bleak days of illness and pain
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
What I feel it's not important, its not important, it's not important,
This… is… the… end… of… the… summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Not sure but it might be:
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Live for the reason, the reason is sure to amaze
SACCHARIN [JOLLIES?]and other such terrible ways
You live for the evening coz it's the best part of the day
Hold out for weekends and bleak days of illness and…
TODAY I WOKE UP ON MY OWN
I looked into myself and all I could see was a… maaaaaan
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
What I feel it's not important, its not important, it's not important…
Me oh my, think I'm going to,
Pull a sicky, do runner,
Talk talking to my leader
SUMMER FEVER, WHAT A BLEEDER
Free and easy, easily free-er
Live for the reason, the reason is sure to amaze
Hold out for weekends and bleak days of illness and pain
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
What I feel it's not important, its not important, it's not important,
This… is… the… end… of… the… summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Not sure but it might be:
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Live for the reason, the reason is sure to amaze
SACCHARIN [JOLLIES?]and other such terrible ways
You live for the evening coz it's the best part of the day
Hold out for weekends and bleak days of illness and…
TODAY I WOKE UP ON MY OWN
I looked into myself and all I could see was a… maaaaaan
Hot summer hot, hot summer
Hot summer hot, hot summer
What I feel it's not important, its not important, it's not important…
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Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) Lyrics as written by Oliver Askew Henry Dartnall
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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