"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.
Went and left me on my own before
Said you don't want me round anymore
Found some other fool to come and care for you
Now you're back and though my heart is sad
You still want me but girl I'm still mad at you
So baby don't bother at all
When I see you walking down the street
I feel so sorry for the one you meet
Now I know what you are like and what you can do
That was then and now you're at my door
What can I tell you that I haven't before, we're through
So baby don't bother at all
From a bird's eye view to a T-bone steak
From above to below the human race
Have about as much respect for each other as we demand
To the moon to the wrong southside of you
Still remember how you used to care
Take you with me almost everywhere
Seems so funny to think that you'd be untrue
But the day you ran away with him
You made a fool of me and that I think is cruel
So baby don't bother at all
A bed of roses suppose it doesn't exist
would you believe,I believe that believing in this
is like a suit on a groom and the bride he's going to wed
Well instead go asleep in separate beds
Went and left me on my own before
Said you don't want me 'round anymore
Found another fool to come and care for you
Now you're back and though my heart is sad
You still want me but honey I'm still mad at you
So baby don't bother at all
So baby don't bother at all
So baby don't bother at all
Said you don't want me round anymore
Found some other fool to come and care for you
Now you're back and though my heart is sad
You still want me but girl I'm still mad at you
So baby don't bother at all
When I see you walking down the street
I feel so sorry for the one you meet
Now I know what you are like and what you can do
That was then and now you're at my door
What can I tell you that I haven't before, we're through
So baby don't bother at all
From a bird's eye view to a T-bone steak
From above to below the human race
Have about as much respect for each other as we demand
To the moon to the wrong southside of you
Still remember how you used to care
Take you with me almost everywhere
Seems so funny to think that you'd be untrue
But the day you ran away with him
You made a fool of me and that I think is cruel
So baby don't bother at all
A bed of roses suppose it doesn't exist
would you believe,I believe that believing in this
is like a suit on a groom and the bride he's going to wed
Well instead go asleep in separate beds
Went and left me on my own before
Said you don't want me 'round anymore
Found another fool to come and care for you
Now you're back and though my heart is sad
You still want me but honey I'm still mad at you
So baby don't bother at all
So baby don't bother at all
So baby don't bother at all
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