"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.
Oh, tiring city
Leave you from time to time
People wear things in their ears
Cutting me off in line
Get on the long yellow highway
Need to get the hell out
Hassles assholes, assholes
Always stacking up
Oh jilted lover why wont you leave me be?
Why must you grind your axe against my fruit bearing tree?
Oh, lonely mountain quite peaceful and green
Out here in isolation don't hear no ambulance screams
Oh, bitter friend
Envious of others jobs
Envious of others freedoms
Gotta work hard to find your sweet spot
devoted my whole life
nothing came by luck
your dad paid for your college
my dad gave me five bucks
oh endless sessions
down here at Ellis and Hyde
my elbows at the desk
i listen and scrutinize
Come home lay down in bed
Drum loop stuck in my head
Try to shut my brain off
And open night stalker again
Oh lonely wrecker no longer has a home
Only money comes when I get out on the road
Oh lonely ocean why must I cross
To end up in Puerto Real Spain
Where I'll turn and I'll toss
Oh, lonely singer lies there awake Looks at the clock
Flipping through a black book re-Learning songs that hes forgot
Oh, eager fan
Follows me show to show
Well if I have a goodnight
I might come out and say hello
Oh, patient lover
Waiting by the phone
I call her from my layover
And tell her im coming home
Scattered lights of south San Francisco sparkles like diamonds
When the night is black and my airplanes downward gliding
Oh, love I missed you lie down next to me
Sway with me like the ocean till I fall into a deep long sleep
Oh, dandelions coming up from the ground
I reach for a notebook, write down some words and try to wind-down
Leave you from time to time
People wear things in their ears
Cutting me off in line
Get on the long yellow highway
Need to get the hell out
Hassles assholes, assholes
Always stacking up
Oh jilted lover why wont you leave me be?
Why must you grind your axe against my fruit bearing tree?
Oh, lonely mountain quite peaceful and green
Out here in isolation don't hear no ambulance screams
Oh, bitter friend
Envious of others jobs
Envious of others freedoms
Gotta work hard to find your sweet spot
devoted my whole life
nothing came by luck
your dad paid for your college
my dad gave me five bucks
oh endless sessions
down here at Ellis and Hyde
my elbows at the desk
i listen and scrutinize
Come home lay down in bed
Drum loop stuck in my head
Try to shut my brain off
And open night stalker again
Oh lonely wrecker no longer has a home
Only money comes when I get out on the road
Oh lonely ocean why must I cross
To end up in Puerto Real Spain
Where I'll turn and I'll toss
Oh, lonely singer lies there awake Looks at the clock
Flipping through a black book re-Learning songs that hes forgot
Oh, eager fan
Follows me show to show
Well if I have a goodnight
I might come out and say hello
Oh, patient lover
Waiting by the phone
I call her from my layover
And tell her im coming home
Scattered lights of south San Francisco sparkles like diamonds
When the night is black and my airplanes downward gliding
Oh, love I missed you lie down next to me
Sway with me like the ocean till I fall into a deep long sleep
Oh, dandelions coming up from the ground
I reach for a notebook, write down some words and try to wind-down
Lyrics submitted by seasideisme
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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