"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.
Look in to the windward
Chance would be there
Circle the skies
Circles in the corn
Circles in the spiral of our eyes
Where will we be
Where in heaven is love?
Look into the first light
Caught in the moon
Singing with the changes
Dancing then making us sigh
Who the first to see them
Patterns of the memory?
Asking us to wonder
Asking us to listen
Where are we now?
The earth is new
The world is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear
The world is new
The Earth is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear
Can you believe the music
Can you believe the passion
Can you believe the healing
Bringing us the messages?
Positive the reason
We see the circles
Part of our memory
Part understanding
Messages of other worlds
Coming through in mysteries
See in the world
It is the word
It is the world
Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the sun
Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the soul
Like a message has come to the earth
Be the earth field and see the circles
Hear the patterns they're singing to you
Hear the patterns they're bringing to you
Like a message has come to the earth
Chance would be there
Circle the skies
Circles in the corn
Circles in the spiral of our eyes
Where will we be
Where in heaven is love?
Look into the first light
Caught in the moon
Singing with the changes
Dancing then making us sigh
Who the first to see them
Patterns of the memory?
Asking us to wonder
Asking us to listen
Where are we now?
The earth is new
The world is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear
The world is new
The Earth is clear
The earth is ready
Making us hear
Can you believe the music
Can you believe the passion
Can you believe the healing
Bringing us the messages?
Positive the reason
We see the circles
Part of our memory
Part understanding
Messages of other worlds
Coming through in mysteries
See in the world
It is the word
It is the world
Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the sun
Light the mist
Light the kiss
Light the fire
Light the soul
Like a message has come to the earth
Be the earth field and see the circles
Hear the patterns they're singing to you
Hear the patterns they're bringing to you
Like a message has come to the earth
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