"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.
We-you becoming rotten down me my door
Better result to me or you think like me
Well you the people around are as though to be fast
Being existent our president space
Do again their poppy youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Youth, youth, youth, youth
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly
You brought us our bright darkness
Back to the back door
You never give that birthday
While I doubt when I get back your oath
Living in a fridge as though as annealed place
Without fealing that my feature is beatness
Living in a fridge as though as annealed place
Without fealing that my feature is beatness
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Youth, youth, youth, youth
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly
Unlike you say say why does it feel like the air wet, you
I feel like rain and wind and feel like kiss me, you and I
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you fly
Better result to me or you think like me
Well you the people around are as though to be fast
Being existent our president space
Do again their poppy youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Youth, youth, youth, youth
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly
You brought us our bright darkness
Back to the back door
You never give that birthday
While I doubt when I get back your oath
Living in a fridge as though as annealed place
Without fealing that my feature is beatness
Living in a fridge as though as annealed place
Without fealing that my feature is beatness
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Oh me roger when when again youth
Youth, youth, youth, youth
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly
Unlike you say say why does it feel like the air wet, you
I feel like rain and wind and feel like kiss me, you and I
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you gotta rugged right
You fly, you fly, you fly
Lyrics submitted by S.O.A.D.A.M
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