"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.
Moving in slow motion
I can't find a meaning
To what we have become
Or what we'll turn into next
As I lie here and watch men and monsters fall
Cut down right at the heart of what once stood tall
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Rewind this wreckage
It happened a bit too soon
Just tasted love
Now a memory inside a room
Carry me mother, tell father he taught me well
To every brother- "I dont think I'll make it now"
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Would you walk the line or just pretend?
Remember you won't live again
It's all okay
I've given it everything that I've got
I think I can understand with the last shot
You pull it apart
Create a new start
Just between you and me and the ground
I never had thought that we're going down now
Is it for the heart?
Did it hit the heart?
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Would you walk the line or just pretend?
Remember you won't live again
It's all okay
I've given it everything that I've got
I've given it everything that I've got now
I can't find a meaning
To what we have become
Or what we'll turn into next
As I lie here and watch men and monsters fall
Cut down right at the heart of what once stood tall
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Rewind this wreckage
It happened a bit too soon
Just tasted love
Now a memory inside a room
Carry me mother, tell father he taught me well
To every brother- "I dont think I'll make it now"
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Would you walk the line or just pretend?
Remember you won't live again
It's all okay
I've given it everything that I've got
I think I can understand with the last shot
You pull it apart
Create a new start
Just between you and me and the ground
I never had thought that we're going down now
Is it for the heart?
Did it hit the heart?
I'm under the camera lens once again
If you want then you can let me in
And I know that we can start again
It's all okay
Would you walk the line or just pretend?
Remember you won't live again
It's all okay
I've given it everything that I've got
I've given it everything that I've got now
Lyrics submitted by PurpleDee
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