"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.
So here we are
Hopefully
Well prepared
For everything that may now happen to us
This conversation, we're leading now
Just tell me where your heart belongs
I've tried to reach you, just for one more time
Just tell me where your heart belongs
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
Time had come to get things going on
And on this way I noticed that there's no space left for us
Wherever it may go we should be down with it
Cause if we're not all this will break us up
This is all we are, and what we need
It's all we have, and what we're able to
This is all we are, and what we need
It's all we have, and what we're able to
Hiding but nowhere and this wasn't all my fault
Attempt to hold on
This is what came down
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
Time had come to get things going on
Wherever it may go we should be down with it
Cause if we're not all this will break us
Like sometimes in the past
When everything looked quiet good
But wasn't as we see
Hopefully
Well prepared
For everything that may now happen to us
This conversation, we're leading now
Just tell me where your heart belongs
I've tried to reach you, just for one more time
Just tell me where your heart belongs
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
Time had come to get things going on
And on this way I noticed that there's no space left for us
Wherever it may go we should be down with it
Cause if we're not all this will break us up
This is all we are, and what we need
It's all we have, and what we're able to
This is all we are, and what we need
It's all we have, and what we're able to
Hiding but nowhere and this wasn't all my fault
Attempt to hold on
This is what came down
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
This is what came down
This is to believe
We're coming together
Time had come to get things going on
Wherever it may go we should be down with it
Cause if we're not all this will break us
Like sometimes in the past
When everything looked quiet good
But wasn't as we see
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