"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.
Sweet Tully Dew (Tully Moore), my sweet Tully Dew
What I wouldn’t give for one [more] night with you
Oh Sweet Tully Dew (Tully Moore), my sweet Tully Dew
Would you spend one more night, in my arms Tully Dew
The fairest memories of my younger days
All revolve ‘round the presence of a pretty young maid
Her father, Mr. Moore, the town’s brewer was he
And his lovely young daughter, he named her Tully
Her skin shone golden like wheat in the field
And her eyes purest green as any emerald could yield
From her lips flowed freely love’s sweetest brew
As fresh as the morning, we called her Tully Dew
One fine spring evening, I found in my arms
A smiling, sweet Tully, and I drank in her charms
We danced for hours, like clouds in the sky
Not a team of horses she from my arms could pry
The glow from her hair shone like the sun
As I tasted her lips I knew she was the one
From the base of her feet to her golden crown
In her love I would swim ‘till I might drown
Sweet Tully Dew (Tully Moore), my sweet Tully Dew
From your lips flowed sweet honey, when e’re I kissed you
Sweet Tully Dew (Tully Moore), my sweet Tully Dew
Just one taste from your lips and Heaven I knew
As years passed us by our love seemed to wane
And we yearned for the newness of our younger days
For a time we parted and misery I knew
Bereft of the company of sweet Tully Dew
One dark fateful eve, she came back to me
We laughed and smiled together, so happy and carefree
As we walked the cliffs o’er the bountiful sea
For the last time I tasted the lips of Tully
For as we stood held in each other’s arms
A mighty gust of wind stole ‘way her charms
She fell so slowly and on the rocks met her end
Now forever I’ll wander, a lonely, broken man
Lyrics submitted by VampedVixen
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