"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.
It's been two years
Since I've taken this way home
It's comforting to know
Not much has changed
From the fields we used to roam
Stick it to those two abandoned Homes
Everyones a writer I just have a general plot
Fantasizing every art
Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friends
Never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom with you
Thinking back I'm thinking forward
I always thought I'd be further than I ever am
(But not this badly) But not this badly
I wouldn't have a good one
These fights just don't hold me down
They fucking carry me
Everyones a writer I just have a general plot
Fantasizing every art
Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friends
never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom
Sometimes I can't believe
the things I get myself into
Because layin' low has never made much sense to me
Sometimes I can't believe
the things I get myself into
Because layin' low has never made much sense to me
I still take bad advice from my best friends (Wa-oh)
I still take bad advice from my best friends
never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom with you
So keep on spinnin'
I'll stay behind
My closing speech
Fuck your world I'll take mine
Since I've taken this way home
It's comforting to know
Not much has changed
From the fields we used to roam
Stick it to those two abandoned Homes
Everyones a writer I just have a general plot
Fantasizing every art
Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friends
Never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom with you
Thinking back I'm thinking forward
I always thought I'd be further than I ever am
(But not this badly) But not this badly
I wouldn't have a good one
These fights just don't hold me down
They fucking carry me
Everyones a writer I just have a general plot
Fantasizing every art
Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friends
never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom
Sometimes I can't believe
the things I get myself into
Because layin' low has never made much sense to me
Sometimes I can't believe
the things I get myself into
Because layin' low has never made much sense to me
I still take bad advice from my best friends (Wa-oh)
I still take bad advice from my best friends
never take bad advice from my best friends
I'm the guy on the sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom with you
So keep on spinnin'
I'll stay behind
My closing speech
Fuck your world I'll take mine
Lyrics submitted by purple7861
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First of all, I LOVE LOVE this song. But on the other hand, it's hard to tell what this song is really about. It seems like it's all over the place (lyrical content-wise), and the fact that it's hard for us to agree on the lyrics makes even harder to tell the meaning.
I think the general theme is something like "I've come a long way, but some things are still like before, and I like it that way." The chorus is case-in-point; "I still take bad advice from my best friends." Maybe that's one of the few things he did before changing and he still does. (I'm still not sure how to interpret the bridge and the post-chorus, though.)