"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've been losin' sleep
I've been keepin' myself awake
I've been wandering the streets
For days and days and days
Oh if I'm road to road
Back to back, lover to lover
And black to red, but I believe
I believe
There's no salvation for me now
No space among the clouds
And I feel I'm heading down
That's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
And I've been taking chances
I've been setting myself up for the fall
And I've been keeping secrets
From my heart and from my soul
Going from road to road
Bed to bed, lover to lover
And black to red
But I believe, I believe
There's no salvation for me now
No space among the clouds
And I feel that I'm heading down
But that's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
Rood to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
And black to red
And road to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
No space among the clouds
And I feel I'm heading down
But that's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
Road to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
And black to red
And road to road, bed to bed
Lover to lover, to lover to lover
To lover, to lover, to lover, to lover
To lover, to lover, to lover, to lover (woo)
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
I've been keepin' myself awake
I've been wandering the streets
For days and days and days
Oh if I'm road to road
Back to back, lover to lover
And black to red, but I believe
I believe
There's no salvation for me now
No space among the clouds
And I feel I'm heading down
That's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
And I've been taking chances
I've been setting myself up for the fall
And I've been keeping secrets
From my heart and from my soul
Going from road to road
Bed to bed, lover to lover
And black to red
But I believe, I believe
There's no salvation for me now
No space among the clouds
And I feel that I'm heading down
But that's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
Rood to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
And black to red
And road to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
No space among the clouds
And I feel I'm heading down
But that's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
That's alright, that's alright
Road to road, bed to bed
And lover to lover
And black to red
And road to road, bed to bed
Lover to lover, to lover to lover
To lover, to lover, to lover, to lover
To lover, to lover, to lover, to lover (woo)
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
No salvation for me now
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These lines sum it all up pretty well
"And I've been taking chances I've been setting myself up for the fall And I've been keeping secrets From my heart and from my soul"
It sounds to me it's about a woman who's been making mistakes, taking different lovers and sabotaging her chances of happiness because she didn't think she deserved it. "keeping secrets from my heart and from my soul" part makes me think that she was in love with someone but didn't want to admit it even to herself. She was afraid to love this person so she sabotaged the relationship.