"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.
Sometimes you bring me flowers
A misery to me
And I don't want to like a day
Without my memory
goodbye Missouri
Letters on the line
come here now
You know I won't desert you
It's been four years of
Waiting for the day
That you would leave your
Girl and take me somewhere away
summertime was lost
And I knew it on the spot
I would marry you some sunny day
But baby I know its strange
To end up this way
A mistress on a sunny day
1000 bottles of why
And the days of rum
Turn to years of swine
I'm leaving you for good this time
Dreams and scars and letters on the line
A misery to me
And I don't want to like a day
Without my memory
goodbye Missouri
Letters on the line
come here now
You know I won't desert you
It's been four years of
Waiting for the day
That you would leave your
Girl and take me somewhere away
summertime was lost
And I knew it on the spot
I would marry you some sunny day
But baby I know its strange
To end up this way
A mistress on a sunny day
1000 bottles of why
And the days of rum
Turn to years of swine
I'm leaving you for good this time
Dreams and scars and letters on the line
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Mistress Lyrics as written by Marissa Nadler
Lyrics © TERRORBIRD PUBLISHING LLC
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