"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.
Closer to my dreams
Coming over me
I'm getting higher
Closer to my dreams
I'm getting higher and higher
Feel it in my sleep
Sometimes it feels like I'll never go past here
Sometimes it feels like I'm stuck forever, ever (like I'm stuck forever)
But I'm going higher
Closer to my dreams
I'm going higher and higher
I can almost reach
Sometimes you just have to let it go (let it go, let go)
Leaving all my fears to burn and die
Push them all away so I can move on
Closer to my dreams
Feel it all over my being, in my being
Close your eyes and seek what you believe
I'm moving higher, higher, oh, oh
I'm going higher and higher and higher and higher (higher and higher)
Closer to my dreams (higher and higher, oh-oh)
I'm moving upward and onward and beyond all that I can see
Stretching out my arms so I can reach
I'm so close, it's like I can just reach
I can feel my dreams
Closer to my dreams
I'm moving closer to my dreams
Ooh
Sometimes it feel like you're never gonna change (never gonna change)
But you never choose to walk away
Coming over me
I'm getting higher
Closer to my dreams
I'm getting higher and higher
Feel it in my sleep
Sometimes it feels like I'll never go past here
Sometimes it feels like I'm stuck forever, ever (like I'm stuck forever)
But I'm going higher
Closer to my dreams
I'm going higher and higher
I can almost reach
Sometimes you just have to let it go (let it go, let go)
Leaving all my fears to burn and die
Push them all away so I can move on
Closer to my dreams
Feel it all over my being, in my being
Close your eyes and seek what you believe
I'm moving higher, higher, oh, oh
I'm going higher and higher and higher and higher (higher and higher)
Closer to my dreams (higher and higher, oh-oh)
I'm moving upward and onward and beyond all that I can see
Stretching out my arms so I can reach
I'm so close, it's like I can just reach
I can feel my dreams
Closer to my dreams
I'm moving closer to my dreams
Ooh
Sometimes it feel like you're never gonna change (never gonna change)
But you never choose to walk away
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Closer Lyrics as written by Anthony W. Anderson Michael Louis Aaberg
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group
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