"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.
When you’re lost, in an old part of town,
got no friends to carry you around,
I can here you calling, in the dead of the night,
behind a moon bounce, waiting for the light.
No one’s going to find you,
if you ever get lost this time,
I never want to see you alone.
I remember the old motel,
you were tearing ‘part the windows,
tearing ‘part yourself.
I helped you, when you were in a bind,
good love is hard to find.
But no one’s going to find you, if you ever get lost this time.
I never want to see you alone.
Darkness be my friend tonight. I never want to be alone, I never want to see her alone. Darkness be my friend tonight.
I never was the one for you, you never were the one for me...
When you’re lost, in an old part of town,
got no friends to carry you around,
I can here you calling, in the dead of the night,
behind a moon bounce, waiting for the light.
got no friends to carry you around,
I can here you calling, in the dead of the night,
behind a moon bounce, waiting for the light.
No one’s going to find you,
if you ever get lost this time,
I never want to see you alone.
I remember the old motel,
you were tearing ‘part the windows,
tearing ‘part yourself.
I helped you, when you were in a bind,
good love is hard to find.
But no one’s going to find you, if you ever get lost this time.
I never want to see you alone.
Darkness be my friend tonight. I never want to be alone, I never want to see her alone. Darkness be my friend tonight.
I never was the one for you, you never were the one for me...
When you’re lost, in an old part of town,
got no friends to carry you around,
I can here you calling, in the dead of the night,
behind a moon bounce, waiting for the light.
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