"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.
Some were reborn
Some were simply shaken free
And some were the colors
That took to the streets
They found in those later years
They knew what we need
It's love for each other
And every living thing
And I hope my time (hope my time) is used
It's all my only and lonely time too
Some simply shaken free
Some were the colors
That took through the streets
They thought in those younger years
They knew what to do
They knew what to say
Had nothing to lose
Now pick up and pack up the place you were pink
And falling around
Dripping and crawling and clawing inside
You're missing some sounds
The ones that float, carry and dance about time
And space that it lends
Room to be free like the sun and the moon
Save for the sounds
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
We'll be reborn
Yeah, we'll simply be free
We'll be the colors
That pour through the streets
And find in there after years
We're all, we're all the same
We're all the colors
That pour through the streets
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Some were simply shaken free
And some were the colors
That took to the streets
They found in those later years
They knew what we need
It's love for each other
And every living thing
And I hope my time (hope my time) is used
It's all my only and lonely time too
Some simply shaken free
Some were the colors
That took through the streets
They thought in those younger years
They knew what to do
They knew what to say
Had nothing to lose
Now pick up and pack up the place you were pink
And falling around
Dripping and crawling and clawing inside
You're missing some sounds
The ones that float, carry and dance about time
And space that it lends
Room to be free like the sun and the moon
Save for the sounds
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
We'll be reborn
Yeah, we'll simply be free
We'll be the colors
That pour through the streets
And find in there after years
We're all, we're all the same
We're all the colors
That pour through the streets
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
Take from the air, take to the streets, and I
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And I Lyrics as written by John Baldwin Gourley
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