"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.
Send my letters in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Come on and wish me the best of luck dear, that's the one to go my bail
There's never been a place so lonely as the Tupelo County Jail
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
The Tupelo County Jail
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Come on and wish me the best of luck dear, that's the one to go my bail
There's never been a place so lonely as the Tupelo County Jail
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
Come on and write, write, write me a letter send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County Jail
The Tupelo County Jail
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Tupelo County Jail Lyrics as written by Webb Pierce Mel Tillis
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