"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 went out in the street for a walk in the night
Had to loosen my head, it's been wound too tight
I've been standing on the edge after picking a fight with you
Sometimes my world seems so damn small
I can't think of nothing 'cept for me at all
And my thoughts surround me like a prison wall, it's true
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
It takes all my strength to slow myself down
My thoughts are screaming, I can't hear a sound
Sometimes I wish there was no one around but you
Oh, tell me you know what I'm talking about
Sometimes you're the sail like confusion and doubt
And then it hurts so bad, you just wanna shout, "I'm through"
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
Please forgive these things I might've said
You see they come from my frustration, not my head
And the last thing that I wanna do
Is create a distance between me and you
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
Well, there seem to be two states of mind
One is visionary, the other blind
And the best that we can hope to find
Is to meet somewhere in between
Well, the night air has pulled me back a bit
Just when I was about to quit, trying to get a candle lit
That lets me see what can't be seen
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
Had to loosen my head, it's been wound too tight
I've been standing on the edge after picking a fight with you
Sometimes my world seems so damn small
I can't think of nothing 'cept for me at all
And my thoughts surround me like a prison wall, it's true
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
It takes all my strength to slow myself down
My thoughts are screaming, I can't hear a sound
Sometimes I wish there was no one around but you
Oh, tell me you know what I'm talking about
Sometimes you're the sail like confusion and doubt
And then it hurts so bad, you just wanna shout, "I'm through"
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
Please forgive these things I might've said
You see they come from my frustration, not my head
And the last thing that I wanna do
Is create a distance between me and you
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
Well, there seem to be two states of mind
One is visionary, the other blind
And the best that we can hope to find
Is to meet somewhere in between
Well, the night air has pulled me back a bit
Just when I was about to quit, trying to get a candle lit
That lets me see what can't be seen
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I gotta get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
I wanna get closer to you now
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Closer, Closer Lyrics as written by Peter Himmelman
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