"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.
She's thinking about the prince and Cinderella
The outlaws and the hustlers and the heroes
That never seem to fall
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter
What the outcome of the story is
'Cause in real life, I try to tell her
It's not like that at all
Oh, won't you please just hold out now
'Cause there are some things I'd like you to forget
When your world is sinking like a sunset
Tales of Don Juan, they're very poetic babe
But out on the streets, out there
The true verse of life is written
You know it's really a shame
When you've got to let go
Of all the things you love
Like a fighter, he really bleeds
When he must hang up his gloves
No, I am not a rock
And I can feel it now
But for a moment
I'd like to forget
That my heart is
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Oh, everybody has a story
Some are tragic and some find glory
But it feels more real when you're here
Right next to me
Na, na, na, na, na, na
You can walk too far out on that ledge
And you might lose your mind
You know I need you now
You're the angel that keeps me in line
The old sergeant has broken down
He's grown senile
He shouts, "kill the bastards," in the night
'Cause he's all out of time
Well, don't hold out, let's make love right now
'Cause there's some things I'd like to forget
When our hearts are sinkin' like a sunset
Won't you hold me now
And make things alright
'Cause when you're with me here
The sun comes out at night
Making me forget
We're sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
The outlaws and the hustlers and the heroes
That never seem to fall
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter
What the outcome of the story is
'Cause in real life, I try to tell her
It's not like that at all
Oh, won't you please just hold out now
'Cause there are some things I'd like you to forget
When your world is sinking like a sunset
Tales of Don Juan, they're very poetic babe
But out on the streets, out there
The true verse of life is written
You know it's really a shame
When you've got to let go
Of all the things you love
Like a fighter, he really bleeds
When he must hang up his gloves
No, I am not a rock
And I can feel it now
But for a moment
I'd like to forget
That my heart is
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Oh, everybody has a story
Some are tragic and some find glory
But it feels more real when you're here
Right next to me
Na, na, na, na, na, na
You can walk too far out on that ledge
And you might lose your mind
You know I need you now
You're the angel that keeps me in line
The old sergeant has broken down
He's grown senile
He shouts, "kill the bastards," in the night
'Cause he's all out of time
Well, don't hold out, let's make love right now
'Cause there's some things I'd like to forget
When our hearts are sinkin' like a sunset
Won't you hold me now
And make things alright
'Cause when you're with me here
The sun comes out at night
Making me forget
We're sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (oh)
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Sinking like a sunset
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