"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.
Open up your transmission
I'm sitting on the outside of evolution
No need to feel sad
I got to be glad
I got to know the price of the path I chose
The way the nomad knows
Shaking in the red leaf of these hands
I got so much heart want to sustain
I got to burn to feel the heat
I got to walk to know my street
I got to move to what goes
The way the nomad knows
I put on my old coat
I wear my broken arrow
Something's got to flow
Through the deathly sorrow
I may fall from the trapeze
But I will land down on my knees
I got to sing with praise
It won't pretend it blows
The way the nomad knows
Spirit rising from the ground
It never lets me sleep
I'm got to go down there
It's going to be deep
I got to learn to love my centre
My job is here as the receiver
Till my bones come to some repose
The way the nomad knows
Skin is peeling, I'm feeling the ghost
I got to move to some other coast
I feel I want to dance, tearing with my clothes
The way the nomad knows
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
I'm sitting on the outside of evolution
No need to feel sad
I got to be glad
I got to know the price of the path I chose
The way the nomad knows
Shaking in the red leaf of these hands
I got so much heart want to sustain
I got to burn to feel the heat
I got to walk to know my street
I got to move to what goes
The way the nomad knows
I put on my old coat
I wear my broken arrow
Something's got to flow
Through the deathly sorrow
I may fall from the trapeze
But I will land down on my knees
I got to sing with praise
It won't pretend it blows
The way the nomad knows
Spirit rising from the ground
It never lets me sleep
I'm got to go down there
It's going to be deep
I got to learn to love my centre
My job is here as the receiver
Till my bones come to some repose
The way the nomad knows
Skin is peeling, I'm feeling the ghost
I got to move to some other coast
I feel I want to dance, tearing with my clothes
The way the nomad knows
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
Well, I feel good, yeah, just like I knew I would
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