"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.
Well the first days are hardest days
Don't you worry any more
Cause when life looks like easy street
There is danger at the door
Think this thought of me, let me know your mind
Oh oh all I want to know is-are you kind
It's a buck dancer choice my friend
You better take my advice
You know all the rules by now
And the fire from the ice
Will you come with me, won't you come with me
Oh oh all I want to know, will you come with me
God Damn I declare have you seen like
Their walls are built like cannon balls
Their motto is Don't tread on me
Come hear Uncle John's band playing-to the tide
Come along or go alone
He's come to take his children home
It's the same story that the crow told me
It's the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go
Ain't no time to hate barely time to wait
Oh oh-all I want to know is where does the time go
I live in the a silver mine and I call it Beggar's tomb
I've got me a violin and I beg you call the tune
Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice
Oh oh all I want to know how does the song go
Come hear Uncle John's band by thriver side
Got some thing's to talk about
Here beside the rising tide
Come here Uncle John's band playing-to the tide
Come on along or go alone
He's come to take his children home
Don't you worry any more
Cause when life looks like easy street
There is danger at the door
Think this thought of me, let me know your mind
Oh oh all I want to know is-are you kind
It's a buck dancer choice my friend
You better take my advice
You know all the rules by now
And the fire from the ice
Will you come with me, won't you come with me
Oh oh all I want to know, will you come with me
God Damn I declare have you seen like
Their walls are built like cannon balls
Their motto is Don't tread on me
Come hear Uncle John's band playing-to the tide
Come along or go alone
He's come to take his children home
It's the same story that the crow told me
It's the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go
Ain't no time to hate barely time to wait
Oh oh-all I want to know is where does the time go
I live in the a silver mine and I call it Beggar's tomb
I've got me a violin and I beg you call the tune
Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice
Oh oh all I want to know how does the song go
Come hear Uncle John's band by thriver side
Got some thing's to talk about
Here beside the rising tide
Come here Uncle John's band playing-to the tide
Come on along or go alone
He's come to take his children home
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Uncle John's Band Lyrics as written by Robert C. Hunter Jerome J. Garcia
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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