"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 them big thick lips, like pillows underneath her cheeks.
When she spoke, an avalanche rolled on them from behind her teeth
Suddenly, the carpet, was pulled from underneath my feet
When I tried to get close, she just laughed and got beneath the sheets.
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She had them big almond eyes, that gave her away
And when she started them you could see the tornadoes play
I had the kind of empty hole, that always made her pay
She had them dancing shoes that never let her stay
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no, no, no no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no, no, no no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
Suddenly she says – "Here I am, coming back like a ghost before the wall"
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When she spoke, an avalanche rolled on them from behind her teeth
Suddenly, the carpet, was pulled from underneath my feet
When I tried to get close, she just laughed and got beneath the sheets.
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She had them big almond eyes, that gave her away
And when she started them you could see the tornadoes play
I had the kind of empty hole, that always made her pay
She had them dancing shoes that never let her stay
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no, no, no no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no, no, no no – I got to prove you wrong"
She said "No, no, no – I got to prove you wrong"
Suddenly she says – "Here I am, coming back like a ghost before the wall"
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Lyrics submitted by arthguinness
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