"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.
The modern world sits so easily
A different kind of honesty
Yes I worship at the altar
I am a happy consumer
A record shop and some clarity
Don't need a wilderness to feel solitary
Oh don't need a wilderness
So take me back
To Hazelton Avenue
Motion coffee sleep
It's all I really need
Moving on accept all my apologies
Oh motion coffee sleep
Please accept all my apologies
Amongst the crowd the disconnect is sweeter
Alone in bed the joy is even deeper
I feel like I could - write a best seller
So take me back
To Hazelton Avenue
A different kind of honesty
Yes I worship at the altar
I am a happy consumer
A record shop and some clarity
Don't need a wilderness to feel solitary
Oh don't need a wilderness
So take me back
To Hazelton Avenue
Motion coffee sleep
It's all I really need
Moving on accept all my apologies
Oh motion coffee sleep
Please accept all my apologies
Amongst the crowd the disconnect is sweeter
Alone in bed the joy is even deeper
I feel like I could - write a best seller
So take me back
To Hazelton Avenue
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Hazelton Avenue Lyrics as written by Nicholas Jones James Bradfield
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