"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 tried to fall in it again
my friends took bets and disappeared
they mime their sighing violins
i think i'll wait another year
i want my chest pressed to your chest
my nervous systems interfere
ten or eleven months have passed
i think i'll wait another year
this weather turns my tricks to rust
i am a lousy engineer
the winter makes things hard enough
i think i'll wait another year
plus i'm only twenty-six years old
my grandma died at eighty-three
that's lots of time if i don't smoke
i think i'll wait another year
i'm not as callous as you think
i barely breath when you are near
it's not as bad when i don't drink
i think i'll wait another year
i have my new bill hicks cd
i have my friends and my career
i'm getting smaller by degrees
you said you'd help me disappear
but that could take forever
i think i'll wait another year
it'll be the best year ever
i think i'll wait another year
can't we just wait together
you bring the smokes, i'll bring the beer
i think i'll wait another year
my friends took bets and disappeared
they mime their sighing violins
i think i'll wait another year
i want my chest pressed to your chest
my nervous systems interfere
ten or eleven months have passed
i think i'll wait another year
this weather turns my tricks to rust
i am a lousy engineer
the winter makes things hard enough
i think i'll wait another year
plus i'm only twenty-six years old
my grandma died at eighty-three
that's lots of time if i don't smoke
i think i'll wait another year
i'm not as callous as you think
i barely breath when you are near
it's not as bad when i don't drink
i think i'll wait another year
i have my new bill hicks cd
i have my friends and my career
i'm getting smaller by degrees
you said you'd help me disappear
but that could take forever
i think i'll wait another year
it'll be the best year ever
i think i'll wait another year
can't we just wait together
you bring the smokes, i'll bring the beer
i think i'll wait another year
Lyrics submitted by iggy1110
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it would be seen as a depressing/suicidal song because of the "i think i'll wait another year" line, which suggests she'll give life one more shot for just one more year. she lists these very shallow, flimsy reasons of why she shouldn't die, without sounding very enthusiastic about it.
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she already established that her friends don't think much of her ("mime their sighing violins"), thus this whole song is basically saying "i'll wait another year to see how things work out--if they don't, i'll do it." it being suicide.
that's how i've always heard this song.