"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.
Welcome to my funeral my family and my friends
I hope you've enjoyed the living me because
the dead one never ends
Your tears of joy are hid by tears of regret
You'll remember my parting ways as the first time
we really met
You count me out
You'd better have your doubts
Don't let my death go to your head because I'm
BACK FROM THE DEAD
I've always been a loser and settled for second best
Now I've got another chance and I won't fail again
I crash through the window at the will reading party's host
What's the matter dear family? You look like
you've seen a ghost
No time to run
Not till I've had my fun
This one time you won't forget that I'm
RETURN FROM THE DEAD
Laugh at me - you'll regret
There's no stopping - THE LIVING DEAD
I hope you've enjoyed the living me because
the dead one never ends
Your tears of joy are hid by tears of regret
You'll remember my parting ways as the first time
we really met
You count me out
You'd better have your doubts
Don't let my death go to your head because I'm
BACK FROM THE DEAD
I've always been a loser and settled for second best
Now I've got another chance and I won't fail again
I crash through the window at the will reading party's host
What's the matter dear family? You look like
you've seen a ghost
No time to run
Not till I've had my fun
This one time you won't forget that I'm
RETURN FROM THE DEAD
Laugh at me - you'll regret
There's no stopping - THE LIVING DEAD
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Back from the Dead Lyrics as written by Eric Vidal Louis M. Freeze
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