"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.
I'm gonna build a raft and set it on the water there
Hoping she will come, see the thing I made
What a thing I made
Today I'm gonna sail even if she doesn't show
The ocean can decide, love is like a wave
Love would never fail
Hope she gets here soon
I hope she isn't far away
But if she is, I'll sail anyway
Everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
And when I'm out at sea, I'm gonna write a song for her
I'll sing across the bay, hoping she will hear
Hoping she will hear
I think she's in her car and just above the ?
To hear my serenade reckoning her near
Reckoning her near
And then she's gonna swill
I didn't build my raft in vain
But if I did, we'll both drown anyway
'Cause everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
Giving everything away for free, free
Drown me, it'll stop the pain, if my love's in vain
'Cause I knew, I knew she'd never come
'Cause she couldn't bear the ocean
She couldn't stand the waves
So everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
Hoping she will come, see the thing I made
What a thing I made
Today I'm gonna sail even if she doesn't show
The ocean can decide, love is like a wave
Love would never fail
Hope she gets here soon
I hope she isn't far away
But if she is, I'll sail anyway
Everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
And when I'm out at sea, I'm gonna write a song for her
I'll sing across the bay, hoping she will hear
Hoping she will hear
I think she's in her car and just above the ?
To hear my serenade reckoning her near
Reckoning her near
And then she's gonna swill
I didn't build my raft in vain
But if I did, we'll both drown anyway
'Cause everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
Giving everything away for free, free
Drown me, it'll stop the pain, if my love's in vain
'Cause I knew, I knew she'd never come
'Cause she couldn't bear the ocean
She couldn't stand the waves
So everyday that I love her I kill myself
It happens over and over, there's no one else
And I try to forget her but look at me
Giving everything away for free
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