"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.
In-between lost in noise
Somewhere, somewhere
In-between got no choice
But to be here
Somewhere, somewhere
If you can hear me
If you're still there
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't start searching
I'll get back to you
Riding waves trying to reach
Somewhere, somewhere
Cannot share this moment with you
I'm particles in the air
You can’t see me
But I'm here
So if you can hear me
If you're still there
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't stop searching
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't stop searching
I’ll get back to you
I'll get back to you
I'll get back to you
Somewhere, somewhere
In-between got no choice
But to be here
Somewhere, somewhere
If you can hear me
If you're still there
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't start searching
I'll get back to you
Riding waves trying to reach
Somewhere, somewhere
Cannot share this moment with you
I'm particles in the air
You can’t see me
But I'm here
So if you can hear me
If you're still there
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't stop searching
Stay tuned
There is more to come
Oh don't stop searching
I’ll get back to you
I'll get back to you
I'll get back to you
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it makes me think of someone that died that is trying to get back to his loved one through the waves of the radio
The thing about being particles in the air and staying tuned obviously make it seem to be about contacting someone over the radio. It seems to be contacting someone who doesn't know they're being contacted. Oddly enough, I got the sense of trying to reach someone who had died, but seeing the lyrics, I can't see any such reference.
Another couple of comments about the song: it was written by Norwegian singer Anja Garbarek. It is also noted on a popular internet encyclopaedia that Mr. Radiohead said that he really liked it, but couldn't listen to the rest of the album because this song is so beautiful. If he really liked it, surely he would have listened on and found that the rest of the album is great as well. It makes his comment appear more than just a little disingenuous.