"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.
She had to teach herself to sleep at night
After how they all crawled around her life
She fought and thought through all of the tight spaces no one was ever supposed to find
On her throne of bones, once seeded on the eaten other
Can't let the gel and ledger of intention get away with the old "I meant to"
A cat sized spider innocently invented venom when it's bite injected it's digestive juices on it's throne of bones,
Once seeded on the eaten other
They have to sell his grave withstood invention
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
Sad and beautiful as a zoo
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
The tap of hell is a capped shallow reflection
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
Sad and beautiful as a zoo
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
A simple case of mistaken I dented it
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
Dawn's hazy gauze winding up pre-dawn's wounds
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
I mean shatter when I sheen matter
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
A child soldier of a sort emptying her arsenal for sorting out our mangle
After how they all crawled around her life
She fought and thought through all of the tight spaces no one was ever supposed to find
On her throne of bones, once seeded on the eaten other
Can't let the gel and ledger of intention get away with the old "I meant to"
A cat sized spider innocently invented venom when it's bite injected it's digestive juices on it's throne of bones,
Once seeded on the eaten other
They have to sell his grave withstood invention
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
Sad and beautiful as a zoo
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
The tap of hell is a capped shallow reflection
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
Sad and beautiful as a zoo
Leave what you can and carry what you have to
A simple case of mistaken I dented it
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
Dawn's hazy gauze winding up pre-dawn's wounds
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
I mean shatter when I sheen matter
2-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter / Annie Hall
A child soldier of a sort emptying her arsenal for sorting out our mangle
Lyrics submitted by RecoveringPain
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This song gets stuck in my head way too much. I love "Sad and beautiful as a zoo." and "when it's bite injected digestive juices on it's thrown of bones." Those are the only parts I think I've come to understand or try to interpret. Because the rest of it is pretty what the fuck. Also, I sheen matter when I mean shatter. This song is so good.