"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.
Hoping for the pin to drop
'Cause i kept holding on
Trying to correct the wrongs
Say when, say when
Better luck now that you're on your own
So don't just lie there
Hoping for the pin to drop
Say when, say when
Bridge:
Keep counting all the
Fresh starts we had
I'll raise another
White flag so that
We keep counting all the
Fresh starts we had
I'll fly another
White flag over us
chorus:
No time to bow down
No time to kill
No justifying
Staying down in silence
No time to bow down
No time to kill
We stay between the
White lines
x2
Hoping for a stroke of luck
But one you're counting on
Trying to deflect away
Say when, say when
What do you have and what do you want?
Are you still stuck here
Hoping for a stroke of luck?
Say when, say when
[Bridge]
[Chorus x2]
(focus
stay in silence
changing focus
stay in silence)
[Chorus x 2]
'Cause i kept holding on
Trying to correct the wrongs
Say when, say when
Better luck now that you're on your own
So don't just lie there
Hoping for the pin to drop
Say when, say when
Bridge:
Keep counting all the
Fresh starts we had
I'll raise another
White flag so that
We keep counting all the
Fresh starts we had
I'll fly another
White flag over us
chorus:
No time to bow down
No time to kill
No justifying
Staying down in silence
No time to bow down
No time to kill
We stay between the
White lines
x2
Hoping for a stroke of luck
But one you're counting on
Trying to deflect away
Say when, say when
What do you have and what do you want?
Are you still stuck here
Hoping for a stroke of luck?
Say when, say when
[Bridge]
[Chorus x2]
(focus
stay in silence
changing focus
stay in silence)
[Chorus x 2]
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