"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.
Said this was our town
The joke it was on us
We were just passin through'
On the way to givin' up
Joked this was our town
That someday we'd be thrilled
By anything we loved
And everything we killed
But the biggest risk we'll ever take
Will be to stay here in one place
Swearin' gold is struck
On the way to givin' up
I try not to forget
How close we came to it
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
Ain't we strange enough
That we don't have to prove
We know how to last
And we know how to lose
Gonna chase it down
Find the truth in store
Were we better off
Just one stop before?
Will there be a run of days,
When sittin' pretty will make sense?
When somethin' like a prayer,
Up and pays the rent?
I try not to forget
How close we came to it
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
You're the fever that I dream
The only dream I dream awake
A dream the mornin' cannot shake
You're the fever that I dream
The only dream I dream awake
A dream the mornin' cannot shake (the fever that I dream)
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
The joke it was on us
We were just passin through'
On the way to givin' up
Joked this was our town
That someday we'd be thrilled
By anything we loved
And everything we killed
But the biggest risk we'll ever take
Will be to stay here in one place
Swearin' gold is struck
On the way to givin' up
I try not to forget
How close we came to it
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
Ain't we strange enough
That we don't have to prove
We know how to last
And we know how to lose
Gonna chase it down
Find the truth in store
Were we better off
Just one stop before?
Will there be a run of days,
When sittin' pretty will make sense?
When somethin' like a prayer,
Up and pays the rent?
I try not to forget
How close we came to it
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
You're the fever that I dream
The only dream I dream awake
A dream the mornin' cannot shake
You're the fever that I dream
The only dream I dream awake
A dream the mornin' cannot shake (the fever that I dream)
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculate ...
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