"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.
Star wish, you made a mess of my life
Cause I wasn't thinking clearly when I saw you falling out of the sky
And all the things I thought I ever wanted were just vain and hollow
And to date, I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my life
Why'd you see me coming through the thousand others passing you by?
And what I thought I wanted was the worst thing I could think of
And of course, the only thing you'd use to mess up my life
You were there for everything, even though I wished you weren't
And I let you slip away, another case in point
I had everything I needed in my own backyard, until today
Now I have not
I throw quarters, quarters in a fountain
With the hope that one of them will work
And you will change your mind
And then you'll return
And you can find it in your heart to erase these stupid wishes that I wanted
Then I'll wish for you the rest of my life
Cause I wasn't thinking clearly when I saw you falling out of the sky
And all the things I thought I ever wanted were just vain and hollow
And to date, I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my life
Why'd you see me coming through the thousand others passing you by?
And what I thought I wanted was the worst thing I could think of
And of course, the only thing you'd use to mess up my life
You were there for everything, even though I wished you weren't
And I let you slip away, another case in point
I had everything I needed in my own backyard, until today
Now I have not
I throw quarters, quarters in a fountain
With the hope that one of them will work
And you will change your mind
And then you'll return
And you can find it in your heart to erase these stupid wishes that I wanted
Then I'll wish for you the rest of my life
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