"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.
Waking up alone in my bed
Trying not to think of you
You always say I should believe in me
So that's what I'm gonna do
Maybe I'm done thinking that
I'm better off with you
And maybe I'm done drinking for
The reasons I get from you
Oh, I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
It's a new day, a new romance
Giving all of me to her
And while I'm floating in this trance
Your memories start to blur
And I'm having such a good time even
When you're not around
But when you talk to me it's like
The most familiar sound
Oh, I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
I can feel my thoughts blowing in the wind
And walking home alone I'm giving up again
Try to call you and as you pick up
I'm hanging on to you as if you were a drug
I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love
I'll never fall in love
I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
I'll never fall in love with you
I'll never fall in love with you
Trying not to think of you
You always say I should believe in me
So that's what I'm gonna do
Maybe I'm done thinking that
I'm better off with you
And maybe I'm done drinking for
The reasons I get from you
Oh, I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
It's a new day, a new romance
Giving all of me to her
And while I'm floating in this trance
Your memories start to blur
And I'm having such a good time even
When you're not around
But when you talk to me it's like
The most familiar sound
Oh, I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
I can feel my thoughts blowing in the wind
And walking home alone I'm giving up again
Try to call you and as you pick up
I'm hanging on to you as if you were a drug
I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love
I'll never fall in love
I'll never fall in love with you
And soon I'll find somebody new
And all I do is to deny the truth
I'll never fall in love with you
I'll never fall in love with you
I'll never fall in love with you
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