"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.
The simplest stroke is the swell of the ocean.
The slightest caress, a well of emotion.
Flowing through you, and flowing through me.
Waiting in silence, swirling inside you.
Steady and slow, rhythm is patience.
All that we know, answers to questions.
Growing in you, growing in me.
Fulfilling a need, over and over.
A simple motion. A simple motion.
A simple motion. A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion.
The smallest of glances a deep understanding.
A brush of a hand, love everlasting.
Covering you, covering me.
Eternally made, over and over.
The quietest whispers drown out explosions.
Voices are heard but words never spoken.
Coming from you and coming from me.
Filling a void, over and over.
A simple motion. A simple motion.
A simple motion. A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
Over and over, over and over.
A simple motion A simple motion
A simple motion, over and over.
Over and over, over and over.
The slightest caress, a well of emotion.
Flowing through you, and flowing through me.
Waiting in silence, swirling inside you.
Steady and slow, rhythm is patience.
All that we know, answers to questions.
Growing in you, growing in me.
Fulfilling a need, over and over.
A simple motion. A simple motion.
A simple motion. A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion.
The smallest of glances a deep understanding.
A brush of a hand, love everlasting.
Covering you, covering me.
Eternally made, over and over.
The quietest whispers drown out explosions.
Voices are heard but words never spoken.
Coming from you and coming from me.
Filling a void, over and over.
A simple motion. A simple motion.
A simple motion. A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion (a simple motion).
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
A simple motion, over and over.
Over and over, over and over.
A simple motion A simple motion
A simple motion, over and over.
Over and over, over and over.
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