"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.
You'll find me face down, hands bound, ready for the blade to make me two
If judgment falls to meet this ground, that fate will run me through
No day of wrath will see me break for that faithless breath of shame
When the heretics come to make that list, be true to speak my name
Leave all you see
The curse of man is dead, the hourglass turned on its head
And every care will fade away
To wake a new day
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
No man can bring a fatal sting and I laugh at the gallows thrall
Just line it tight around my neck so my words will break that fall
Fall
Leave all you see
The curse of man is dead, the hourglass turned on its head
And every care will fade away
To wake a new day
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
That final day will fall
And those who curse the sky will face the earth
The many turn to one
The God of Gods' own righteous son
Begging for that second birth
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
If judgment falls to meet this ground, that fate will run me through
No day of wrath will see me break for that faithless breath of shame
When the heretics come to make that list, be true to speak my name
Leave all you see
The curse of man is dead, the hourglass turned on its head
And every care will fade away
To wake a new day
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
No man can bring a fatal sting and I laugh at the gallows thrall
Just line it tight around my neck so my words will break that fall
Fall
Leave all you see
The curse of man is dead, the hourglass turned on its head
And every care will fade away
To wake a new day
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
That final day will fall
And those who curse the sky will face the earth
The many turn to one
The God of Gods' own righteous son
Begging for that second birth
Take every throe within us all
The very breath inside our soul
We bleed the life into your hold
The very death of our control
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Page
Ed Sheeran
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I fairly sure this is talking about the time right before the millennial reign, for Christ's second birth is at that time not the rapture. Also at the end of the tribulation is when every one will bow before christ and confess he is Lord at right before the millennial kingdom