"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.
Sister, hey ain't you something
I can tell you fell and skinned your knees
Why do you lay there
Content to stay there in misery?
I know it's rough on this ocean
We can sink too deep and lose our way
Don't you look back in anger
Times will be changing 'round here today
It's not gonna be this way forever
You can be sure this too shall pass
Just like the sun shines on the valley
Better days will come at last
Just like rain from a storm cloud
We will fall sometimes and need a hand
One thing you can be sure of
There's help from up above, please understand
It's not gonna stay this way forever
Just rest assured this too shall pass
If we can lean on one another
Better days will come at last
Better days will come my brother
Though the wind blows hard from the rain
The hope remains, it's all around
Better days will come my brother
Though the wind blows hard from the rain
There's help from the pain
It's not gonna be this way forever
You can be sure this too shall pass
Just like the sun shines on the valley
Better days will come at last
It's not gonna stay this way forever
Just rest assured this too shall pass
If we can lean on one another
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
I can tell you fell and skinned your knees
Why do you lay there
Content to stay there in misery?
I know it's rough on this ocean
We can sink too deep and lose our way
Don't you look back in anger
Times will be changing 'round here today
It's not gonna be this way forever
You can be sure this too shall pass
Just like the sun shines on the valley
Better days will come at last
Just like rain from a storm cloud
We will fall sometimes and need a hand
One thing you can be sure of
There's help from up above, please understand
It's not gonna stay this way forever
Just rest assured this too shall pass
If we can lean on one another
Better days will come at last
Better days will come my brother
Though the wind blows hard from the rain
The hope remains, it's all around
Better days will come my brother
Though the wind blows hard from the rain
There's help from the pain
It's not gonna be this way forever
You can be sure this too shall pass
Just like the sun shines on the valley
Better days will come at last
It's not gonna stay this way forever
Just rest assured this too shall pass
If we can lean on one another
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
Better days will come at last
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