"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.
And tell me a story
And tell me where it all went wrong
Millions of perfect little pieces
But you're barely holding on
You follow the leader
You follow the one you make so proud
Live in a world with no way out
But you didn't want it
No you didn't want it
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You had the right way
You had it all so figured out
Maybe a part of you was dying
Wishing you were someone else
Fragile and hollow
Leaving the things you want the most
On top of the world
But you still know you didn't want it
No you didn't want it
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
Why don't you and I
Take a look at the world though my eyes
Because I'm trying to find if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
All the lies, every fight
Every step out of line
I think just maybe we are
It's gone too far
This is so hard
But none of it matters
It's all because of you
You had the right way
You had it all so figured out
Follow the leader until your heart burns out
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
Why don't you and I
Take a look at the world though my eyes
Because I'm trying to find if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
And tell me where it all went wrong
Millions of perfect little pieces
But you're barely holding on
You follow the leader
You follow the one you make so proud
Live in a world with no way out
But you didn't want it
No you didn't want it
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You had the right way
You had it all so figured out
Maybe a part of you was dying
Wishing you were someone else
Fragile and hollow
Leaving the things you want the most
On top of the world
But you still know you didn't want it
No you didn't want it
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
Why don't you and I
Take a look at the world though my eyes
Because I'm trying to find if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
All the lies, every fight
Every step out of line
I think just maybe we are
It's gone too far
This is so hard
But none of it matters
It's all because of you
You had the right way
You had it all so figured out
Follow the leader until your heart burns out
Are you afraid
Are you lost and faithless
Because you're lying here lifeless
I want to know if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
Why don't you and I
Take a look at the world though my eyes
Because I'm trying to find if you had more strength inside
Would you see me in a different light
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
You were wrong, you were right
You were out of your mind
I'm going crazy
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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