"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 here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Now all I have to do
Is swim up after you
Convince you
To climb in too
Cut yourself first
They can smell your blood
From forty miles away
They'll be here in no time
They'll be here in no time
Pick the biggest, meanest motherfucker I'll
Climb inside
For you
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold, so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Oh yeah
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
Oh yeah
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Now all I have to do
Is swim up after you
Convince you
To climb in too
Cut yourself first
They can smell your blood
From forty miles away
They'll be here in no time
They'll be here in no time
Pick the biggest, meanest motherfucker I'll
Climb inside
For you
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
So fucking cold, so fucking dark
So here I lie
In the belly of a shark
And how the fuck did I get this far?
Oh yeah
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
I'm gonna show you
Exactly what you mean to me
I'm gonna eat every man that you see
Oh yeah
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