"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.
My dear good friend let's not forget
That we can take down Pinochet
Against us any gang of four
Will be on the floor
When I was younger I thought someday that we will win
And in another country I will find my twin
Spread good music and good poetry
Joining the forces of the victory
Down in the hallways of unknown
Where we walk alone
Inside of hospitals and morgue
Clinical loneliness backs off
If you'll remember those before
And the ones that yet to come
Above suffer of it all
Triumphs the union of souls
With only one thing on its mind
I can't go on, I will go on
With only one thing on it's mind
I can't go on, I will go on
When I was younger I thought someday that we will win
And in another country I will find my twin
Spread good music and good poetry
Joining forces of the victory
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I must ? have to some wrong
That we can take down Pinochet
Against us any gang of four
Will be on the floor
When I was younger I thought someday that we will win
And in another country I will find my twin
Spread good music and good poetry
Joining the forces of the victory
Down in the hallways of unknown
Where we walk alone
Inside of hospitals and morgue
Clinical loneliness backs off
If you'll remember those before
And the ones that yet to come
Above suffer of it all
Triumphs the union of souls
With only one thing on its mind
I can't go on, I will go on
With only one thing on it's mind
I can't go on, I will go on
When I was younger I thought someday that we will win
And in another country I will find my twin
Spread good music and good poetry
Joining forces of the victory
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I can't go on, I will go on
I must ? have to some wrong
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