"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.
I'm falling just as fast as you
When all that's left is blame
Oh, there is nothing to do
Nothing to do but escape
Oh, the light burned out on us a few weeks back
Oh, the light burned out on us a few weeks ago
Lucky for us, lucky for us
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as
Just as fast as you, I'm falling just as fast as you
I wish I could help you, honey
I really do, but just what am I to do
If we really are one and the same?
And we have forced each other
Into all of these mistakes
We're gonna need somebody else to do our saving
Hopelessness has left us falling
With nothing to cling to
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as you
The vultures are set on my flesh
They're tearing at the faith in my chest
Vultures are set on my flesh
And they're tearing at the faith in my chest
Hopelessness has left us falling
With nothing to cling to
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as, just as fast
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as
Just as fast as you
When all that's left is blame
Oh, there is nothing to do
Nothing to do but escape
Oh, the light burned out on us a few weeks back
Oh, the light burned out on us a few weeks ago
Lucky for us, lucky for us
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as
Just as fast as you, I'm falling just as fast as you
I wish I could help you, honey
I really do, but just what am I to do
If we really are one and the same?
And we have forced each other
Into all of these mistakes
We're gonna need somebody else to do our saving
Hopelessness has left us falling
With nothing to cling to
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as you
The vultures are set on my flesh
They're tearing at the faith in my chest
Vultures are set on my flesh
And they're tearing at the faith in my chest
Hopelessness has left us falling
With nothing to cling to
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as, just as fast
Hopelessness has left us falling
Don't look to me, I'm falling just as fast as
Just as fast as you
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