"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.
I went down to the sea
Alone on that stormy day
Hoped the wind and the rain
Might wash my pain away
So I took that ring
And I threw it out on the sea
The ring just sank down
But the pain still was there with me
Picking up the pieces of my life
When I look back it still cuts like a knife
To see us both give up so easily
And much too soon
Did you really think it was too late
The only thing you should have done was to have some faith
In me when I needed it the most
But you never did
We have only two hands
So we can't hold too much at once
And for some things in life
We just get one single chance
As long as it's good
We wish it may never stop
But to pick up something new
There's always one thing we have to drop
Those mistakes we made
May help us to make amends
But it is so hard to see things like that
While you stand there with empty hands
But I know one day love
Is going to come back on silent wings
Now that we know what we have lost
Let's see what tomorrow brings
Alone on that stormy day
Hoped the wind and the rain
Might wash my pain away
So I took that ring
And I threw it out on the sea
The ring just sank down
But the pain still was there with me
Picking up the pieces of my life
When I look back it still cuts like a knife
To see us both give up so easily
And much too soon
Did you really think it was too late
The only thing you should have done was to have some faith
In me when I needed it the most
But you never did
We have only two hands
So we can't hold too much at once
And for some things in life
We just get one single chance
As long as it's good
We wish it may never stop
But to pick up something new
There's always one thing we have to drop
Those mistakes we made
May help us to make amends
But it is so hard to see things like that
While you stand there with empty hands
But I know one day love
Is going to come back on silent wings
Now that we know what we have lost
Let's see what tomorrow brings
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