"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.
Stuck on static
Automatic
Turn off tragic
Mother magic
Too late, all gone
Interferon
I can't move on
Keep on, keep on
Parasitic
Just a pinprick
Cancer conflict
Cataclysmic
Engage, dismiss
Close call, near miss
I can't take this
I can't take this
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
Christmas crushes
Baby blushes
Seedling ashes
Moment passes
Listen, regret
We do forget
Special effect
Same old, same shit
Scraping, killing
Shredding you
Coming, repeating
Lack of feeling
No sick, no cure
Get down on all fours
Make out, make sure
Go on, get yours
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
The more we change
Automatic
Turn off tragic
Mother magic
Too late, all gone
Interferon
I can't move on
Keep on, keep on
Parasitic
Just a pinprick
Cancer conflict
Cataclysmic
Engage, dismiss
Close call, near miss
I can't take this
I can't take this
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
Christmas crushes
Baby blushes
Seedling ashes
Moment passes
Listen, regret
We do forget
Special effect
Same old, same shit
Scraping, killing
Shredding you
Coming, repeating
Lack of feeling
No sick, no cure
Get down on all fours
Make out, make sure
Go on, get yours
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
Everything stays the same
The more we change
The more we change
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