"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.
Silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
You were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
How you been, I'm doing well
I hear you're digging a hole to hell
How you been, I'm doing well
Meet me tonight at the silver bell
I hate to tell you baby,
This is home
The wallpaper is a
Color called sea foam
Pull down the shades a little and
Got yourself a prison cell
?
Tonight baby at the silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
We were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
I did a stupid thing
I even tried
Feels like a hundred bees are
Stinging me from the inside
Don't know just what to do
Don't know just who to tell
So I'm telling you to meet me tonight
Down at the silver bell, silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old hotel
I hate to tell you baby,
This is home
The wallpaper is a
color called sea foam
Pull down the shades a little and
Got yourself a prison cell
?
Tonight baby at the silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
You were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
You were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
How you been, I'm doing well
I hear you're digging a hole to hell
How you been, I'm doing well
Meet me tonight at the silver bell
I hate to tell you baby,
This is home
The wallpaper is a
Color called sea foam
Pull down the shades a little and
Got yourself a prison cell
?
Tonight baby at the silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
We were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
I did a stupid thing
I even tried
Feels like a hundred bees are
Stinging me from the inside
Don't know just what to do
Don't know just who to tell
So I'm telling you to meet me tonight
Down at the silver bell, silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old hotel
I hate to tell you baby,
This is home
The wallpaper is a
color called sea foam
Pull down the shades a little and
Got yourself a prison cell
?
Tonight baby at the silver bell
Silver bell
Yeah that's the name of the old motel
You were traveling when they fell
Down on a bed at the silver bell
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Silver Bell Lyrics as written by Patricia Griffin Adam Steinberg
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