"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.
Sittin' alone now,
Thinkin' about things,
Goin' on inside of me.
I feel so angry, so sinful,
And I wonder how this could be.
But, now I remember,
what you said to me long ago.
That what goes in you,
Will one day surely show.
It's gonna show.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
What goes in is found out.
All can see what goes in me.
I pay the price.
I fill my mind with bad things.
So horrible, I feel ashamed they show.
I've taken sin so lightly.
That lately, oh, the darkness is all I know.
The time is now,
Oh, to leave the junk behind.
The moment has arrived,
Where I no longer am blind.
It's garbage in.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
What goes in is found out.
All can see what goes in me.
I pay the price.
Jesus.
Forgive me for leaving you to please myself.
Jesus.
I see the mistake in loving this world's wealth.
Oh lord, grab hold of this sin-filled child.
For now, 'cause the darkness is all around.
Thinkin' about things,
Goin' on inside of me.
I feel so angry, so sinful,
And I wonder how this could be.
But, now I remember,
what you said to me long ago.
That what goes in you,
Will one day surely show.
It's gonna show.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
What goes in is found out.
All can see what goes in me.
I pay the price.
I fill my mind with bad things.
So horrible, I feel ashamed they show.
I've taken sin so lightly.
That lately, oh, the darkness is all I know.
The time is now,
Oh, to leave the junk behind.
The moment has arrived,
Where I no longer am blind.
It's garbage in.
Garbage in, Garbage out.
What goes in is found out.
All can see what goes in me.
I pay the price.
Jesus.
Forgive me for leaving you to please myself.
Jesus.
I see the mistake in loving this world's wealth.
Oh lord, grab hold of this sin-filled child.
For now, 'cause the darkness is all around.
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