"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.
Exercise the demon that is living up inside you
After all you think you've been through, just what have you been through
Try to get beside yourself this tearing at your insides
If you end up on the wrong side, always standing so strong
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
Something supernatural it seems it could possess you
No melevalance about you yeah that might not be true (might not be true)
How they kept you demonized the fucked up situation,
How you've killed off all the angels taking notice of you
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it
You're born to quit
Sharpe up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
GO on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it!
You're born to quit!
You've blown it!
(you've blown it, you've blown it!)
After all you think you've been through, just what have you been through
Try to get beside yourself this tearing at your insides
If you end up on the wrong side, always standing so strong
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
Something supernatural it seems it could possess you
No melevalance about you yeah that might not be true (might not be true)
How they kept you demonized the fucked up situation,
How you've killed off all the angels taking notice of you
Sharpen up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
Go on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it
You're born to quit
Sharpe up your teeth your dreams are more than worth defending
In a, fight that's never ending
GO on, go ahead and prove me wrong
The further you go
The less you know
You're born to quit, you've blown it (you've blown it)
You need to let go, of letting go
You're full of shit, you're born to quit
You've blown it!
You're born to quit!
You've blown it!
(you've blown it, you've blown it!)
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Born to Quit Lyrics as written by Jeph Howard Quinn Allman
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also could there be a connection to "devil beisde you"
"I wasnt feeling it I dont even, need* to shake your hand Guess you were [[[[[born to quit]]]] Your eyes tell lies your mouth could never spill"
meh. thats one huge grudge they're holding.