"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 watch you In my silence I was you Last grey morning I want you And I cast you And I face disaster (Chorus) I ask you being man I have less use for dignification I know In myself I defy Yet I fall to instinct primitive Am I here? Is this home? ...better run from myself better run... I want you Silently forgiven I want you The pain bestowed (chorus) I feel a change in the air Outstretched to God He fields the suffering A feeling close to me who closes in? I knew I didn't have to go Feeding stop the hunger flat low living Caution for a lunatic... Left her behind god-damnit She didn't have the luck to follow Well here's a little lie about the man she stole away 'Night within a soul cries 'hallelujah' when your drowning'... Once fast below woman... It's fault is not your own And as you are to my world my world shall always be to you you fucker... Feed me woman... I want you.""
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