"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.
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
The time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are so young
They're so young
The backs of trucks covered in dirt
Dirt from the road, from the track
Dirt from the devil himself
I can't see a way of you getting back
Oh, dirty human being
Everyday day after day, day after day
Well, there's no way
You'll get away
And the time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are young
They're so young
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty dirty dirty dirty deals
And
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you
It's been, been ripped and sliced and torn
Been kicked and beat and smashed and ...
It's just a routine, just something
Just something that you do every day
There's no hope of getting away
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Couldn't be, not really, not after what you've been through
So, what's left? What does the world see?
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
Dirty streets and dirty deals
Doesn't need thinking about
Nor when you're eating your home-cooked meals but...
Actually it fucking does
The time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are so young
They're so young
The backs of trucks covered in dirt
Dirt from the road, from the track
Dirt from the devil himself
I can't see a way of you getting back
Oh, dirty human being
Everyday day after day, day after day
Well, there's no way
You'll get away
And the time that it takes is long
And the hurt that it makes is strong
And those eyes that you see are young
They're so young
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty deals
These are the dirty dirty dirty dirty deals
And
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you
It's been, been ripped and sliced and torn
Been kicked and beat and smashed and ...
It's just a routine, just something
Just something that you do every day
There's no hope of getting away
Home is where the heart is
But I don't see any heart left in you and
Couldn't be, not really, not after what you've been through
So, what's left? What does the world see?
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
You're just a piece of dirt where a heart used to be
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This song is expressing how a person is now into crimes ect... they left the family and made a choice and slowly their heart has gone. Doing crimes is now just a routine, now their here their not getting back well that's what i miagine :D a great song but a bit soo slow :)