"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 don't look back I'm a forward thinker
Don't think I'm a wreck but you beg to differ
And you always smile when you tell me it's over
I lose track of time but this you already know
Think out in rhyme but like sounds better when it flows
And still you smile you tell me it's over, yeah.
Yeah, is it enough?
It's never enough to sell yourself for less than love
It's keeping me up through the morning
With no warning
Lately I've been numb I swear I'm getting better
Or it's just begun it really doesn't matter cause
The way I see Things will end as they're meant to...
Just like we do
Yeah, is it enough?
It's never enough to sell yourself for less than love
It's keeping me up through the morning
You're the only way that I want
But is it enough to tell you again just one more time?
You go and leave me abruptly with no warning, with no warning
If you could take a hint from me
Wait for that moment of release
Where everything was meant to be
I'm thinking, honestly, you'd never ever take this from me.
With no warning
Don't think I'm a wreck but you beg to differ
And you always smile when you tell me it's over
I lose track of time but this you already know
Think out in rhyme but like sounds better when it flows
And still you smile you tell me it's over, yeah.
Yeah, is it enough?
It's never enough to sell yourself for less than love
It's keeping me up through the morning
With no warning
Lately I've been numb I swear I'm getting better
Or it's just begun it really doesn't matter cause
The way I see Things will end as they're meant to...
Just like we do
Yeah, is it enough?
It's never enough to sell yourself for less than love
It's keeping me up through the morning
You're the only way that I want
But is it enough to tell you again just one more time?
You go and leave me abruptly with no warning, with no warning
If you could take a hint from me
Wait for that moment of release
Where everything was meant to be
I'm thinking, honestly, you'd never ever take this from me.
With no warning
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uhm, i think you got the words wrong.
"thinking i'm a wreck" should be "don't think im a wreck"
and im not sure, but i think its "think out in rhyme" not "think out in alarm"
"and still you're SMALL when you tell me its over"
"OR its just begun" not "oh its just begun"