"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.
Hide your bones
Hide your skin
Hide your money
Hide your sin
Hide your heart
Hide your soul
Shut your mouth
Say you don't know
Hide your face
Hide your name
Hide your past
Hide your pain
Cut your scars on a window pane
Hide your tears in the rain
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your head
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Hide you sadness
Hide your smile
Hide the truth and your denial
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your bones
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Ya turn away and ya shift the blame
Now ya feel no shame
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your head
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Hide you sadness
Hide your smile
Hide the truth and your denial
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Hide your skin
Hide your money
Hide your sin
Hide your heart
Hide your soul
Shut your mouth
Say you don't know
Hide your face
Hide your name
Hide your past
Hide your pain
Cut your scars on a window pane
Hide your tears in the rain
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your head
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Hide you sadness
Hide your smile
Hide the truth and your denial
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your bones
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Ya turn away and ya shift the blame
Now ya feel no shame
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
Don't want no one to know you well
You're so afraid you don't know yourself
Hide your head
Hide your skin
Hide your price for everything
Hide you sadness
Hide your smile
Hide the truth and your denial
And every night you go to sleep
Your still hidin' in your dreams
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