"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.
Keep in mind the last time
you go away at night
Keep in mind the last time
but don't ignore the first
Raise your eyes
just go again
There will be a next time
So you go go go if you want to go
If you stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again
Keep in mind the past times
Don't ignore the worst
Raise your eyes
just go again
there will be a next time
So you go go go if you want to go
You stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again
In a perfect world
there would be no divide
In a perfect world
we could both open
and see the other side
So you go where you want to be
You say that they'll set you free
You know that it's never so
You go your own way
you go away at night
Keep in mind the last time
but don't ignore the first
Raise your eyes
just go again
There will be a next time
So you go go go if you want to go
If you stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again
Keep in mind the past times
Don't ignore the worst
Raise your eyes
just go again
there will be a next time
So you go go go if you want to go
You stay stay stay well you never know
Day day day will come rise again
You know it will come again
It will come again
In a perfect world
there would be no divide
In a perfect world
we could both open
and see the other side
So you go where you want to be
You say that they'll set you free
You know that it's never so
You go your own way
Lyrics submitted by HellionChild, edited by plattek2002
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