"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.
Don't make a sound
Hold your breath
We gotta go because the Devil thinks your dead
Turn around
Face the door
Where you been sleeping isn't safe anymore
Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah
I know you thought
Your faith was gone
But I'm as real as the fire that you're on
I'm not afraid
Know how to fight
And I ain't leaving here alone tonight
Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, oh yeah
It might just save you
Just because you give up on yourself
Doesn't mean that I gave up myself, myself
Might just save your life
Don't be afraid
Stand up and fight
'Cause I ain't leaving here alone tonight
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Hold your breath
We gotta go because the Devil thinks your dead
Turn around
Face the door
Where you been sleeping isn't safe anymore
Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah
I know you thought
Your faith was gone
But I'm as real as the fire that you're on
I'm not afraid
Know how to fight
And I ain't leaving here alone tonight
Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, oh yeah
It might just save you
Just because you give up on yourself
Doesn't mean that I gave up myself, myself
Might just save your life
Don't be afraid
Stand up and fight
'Cause I ain't leaving here alone tonight
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
Uh-huh, uh-huh
It might just save your life
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