"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.
Our darkest dreams set us free
Our darkest scene set us free
I wanna live the dream
Inside a shadow heart
Where all things are alive
Through a blackened soul
Take me back to
The depth of remembrance
In the summer of love
My heart turned cold
Call me
I'm coming
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
Our darkest dreams set us free
Our darkest scene set us free
I wanna live the dream
Release the vain
You wanna live the dream
Set us free
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
The rush of you forever in the summer of love
Inside our darkest dreams my heart turns cold
I need to remember in the summer of love
Thing are not what they seem my heart turns cold
Call me
Here I'm slowly coming
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
Our darkest scene set us free
I wanna live the dream
Inside a shadow heart
Where all things are alive
Through a blackened soul
Take me back to
The depth of remembrance
In the summer of love
My heart turned cold
Call me
I'm coming
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
Our darkest dreams set us free
Our darkest scene set us free
I wanna live the dream
Release the vain
You wanna live the dream
Set us free
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
The rush of you forever in the summer of love
Inside our darkest dreams my heart turns cold
I need to remember in the summer of love
Thing are not what they seem my heart turns cold
Call me
Here I'm slowly coming
The rush of you forever
Inside our darkest dreams
I need to remember
Things are not what they seem
The rush of you forever
Forever remember
Inside our darkest dreams
Thing are not what they seem
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