"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.
Felt when I walked when I walked out the door
A new day will bring the peace I need
Oh baby I'm so sorry but I leak all the blood
from the past and now it turns into mud
I still feel the devil breaths in me
But this time I will break him piece by piece
Hold back your fears you're more than home
Could it be that the tears no longer sad but true
(could it be that the angels of tomorrow know)
Break the moment into something more than gold
And I realize it now, it was never meant to hold
Sweet as it was not forever and never to close
I believe the pain was hunting me
For all the things that should not be
But i need a new love and for once I believe that it's her
I still feel the devil breathers in me
But this time I will break him piece by piece
You feel you die and then you get home
You pray just like I would slay
Time will heal all wounds
Time will heal all wounds
You bleed you see and then you get home
But still I can speak the angels down from heaven where I slay
A new day will bring the peace I need
Oh baby I'm so sorry but I leak all the blood
from the past and now it turns into mud
I still feel the devil breaths in me
But this time I will break him piece by piece
Hold back your fears you're more than home
Could it be that the tears no longer sad but true
(could it be that the angels of tomorrow know)
Break the moment into something more than gold
And I realize it now, it was never meant to hold
Sweet as it was not forever and never to close
I believe the pain was hunting me
For all the things that should not be
But i need a new love and for once I believe that it's her
I still feel the devil breathers in me
But this time I will break him piece by piece
You feel you die and then you get home
You pray just like I would slay
Time will heal all wounds
Time will heal all wounds
You bleed you see and then you get home
But still I can speak the angels down from heaven where I slay
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