"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.
They're gonna send us to prison for jerks
For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again
They're gonna send us to prison for jerks
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
We miss being ruffians, going wild and bright
In the corners of front yards, getting in and out of cars
We miss being deviants
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
We can't stay here
We're starting to stay the same
We can't stay here
We can't stay this way
Just tie your woman to your wrist
Give her the room to tie the others
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again
They're gonna send us to prison for jerks
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
We miss being ruffians, going wild and bright
In the corners of front yards, getting in and out of cars
We miss being deviants
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
We can't stay here
We're starting to stay the same
We can't stay here
We can't stay this way
Just tie your woman to your wrist
Give her the room to tie the others
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
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