"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.
Choir: Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us his hands
Give us his feet
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us a grave
Give us a shovel
Give us a marker
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us the rope
Give us his hands
Give us his feet
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us a grave
Give us a shovel
Give us a marker
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
Give us the doctor
Give us the rope
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The mob is barely held off by Light's robot escort, and the good doctor is brought to a truck and driven to a train while Light has to hear the taunts and jeers of the city Wily has turned completely against him. I imagine that the robot escort continuously reassures Dr. Light, "We have control. We keep you safe. We are your hope. We are in control." But maybe that's too much.
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