"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.
Days go by
Something in the morning paper caught your eye
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
Days pass by, the blink of an eye
Lights go out
Something gone within that you could do without
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
They've no doubt, you're wearing it out
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
And you're gone
You are the light of the sun
At dawn
Days go by
Something in the morning paper caught your eye
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
Days pass by in the blink of an eye
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
Something in the morning paper caught your eye
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
Days pass by, the blink of an eye
Lights go out
Something gone within that you could do without
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
They've no doubt, you're wearing it out
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
And you're gone
You are the light of the sun
At dawn
Days go by
Something in the morning paper caught your eye
Something gone forever, people think you're clever
Days pass by in the blink of an eye
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
You hesitate, you meditate
You turn your mind off and levitate
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