"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.
Don't give me your line
Won't let it go this time
And make a mockery of this obscenity
It's gotten out of control
Some poor unfortunate soul
Will pay the price again, to feed your vanity
The fascist face of the day
Contributes blood to the fray
And wreaks his devastation on humanity
He hears his own people cry
As countless innocents die
He stands defiant in his own insanity
Another child denied their human right to a life
Free from the shackles that assure their slavery
The monster in human skin, employs abduction again
Collecting innocents
I see the global decline, while wealthy pockets are lines
The masses begging them to show some sympathy
Without a care in their heart, they let it all fall apart
Their twisted rationales have never made sense to me
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
They Machiavellian minds concoct their wicked designs
They think they're standing on the side of destiny
Constricting freedom again they've wrought the ultimate sin
They make pariahs of the sons of liberty
And in the name of their god they wage their war and applaud
The deadly dogma that controls society
Who fucking gave you that right? to spread perpetual night
Your holy rationales have never made sense to me
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
You know I can't imagine anything less from you
Not a single word from your mouth is worth believing
No way to rectify the havoc you've wrought
Know, you're out on line you're out of line
I fear it coming, hear it coming again
A new apocalypse in sight
I see it coming, feel it coming again
We won't capitulate this time
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
You know I can't imagine anything less from you
Not a single word from your mouth is worth believing
No way to rectify the havoc you've wrought
Know, you're out on line you're out of line
Won't let it go this time
And make a mockery of this obscenity
It's gotten out of control
Some poor unfortunate soul
Will pay the price again, to feed your vanity
The fascist face of the day
Contributes blood to the fray
And wreaks his devastation on humanity
He hears his own people cry
As countless innocents die
He stands defiant in his own insanity
Another child denied their human right to a life
Free from the shackles that assure their slavery
The monster in human skin, employs abduction again
Collecting innocents
I see the global decline, while wealthy pockets are lines
The masses begging them to show some sympathy
Without a care in their heart, they let it all fall apart
Their twisted rationales have never made sense to me
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
They Machiavellian minds concoct their wicked designs
They think they're standing on the side of destiny
Constricting freedom again they've wrought the ultimate sin
They make pariahs of the sons of liberty
And in the name of their god they wage their war and applaud
The deadly dogma that controls society
Who fucking gave you that right? to spread perpetual night
Your holy rationales have never made sense to me
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
You know I can't imagine anything less from you
Not a single word from your mouth is worth believing
No way to rectify the havoc you've wrought
Know, you're out on line you're out of line
I fear it coming, hear it coming again
A new apocalypse in sight
I see it coming, feel it coming again
We won't capitulate this time
It seems destruction is a form of success for you
These tragic visions of loss will never leave me
You try to justify the pain that you've brought
But you're out of line, you're out of line
You know I can't imagine anything less from you
Not a single word from your mouth is worth believing
No way to rectify the havoc you've wrought
Know, you're out on line you're out of line
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