"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.
You can run you can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
You and me
Up and down
But maybe this time
We'll get it right
Worth the fight
'Cause love isn't something you can shake
When it breaks all it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
So if you go
You should know
It's hard to just forget the past
So fast
It was good
It was bad,
But it was real
And that's all you have
In the end our love mattered
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
All it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay (I won't make you stay)
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
You and me
Up and down
But maybe this time
We'll get it right
Worth the fight
'Cause love isn't something you can shake
When it breaks all it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
So if you go
You should know
It's hard to just forget the past
So fast
It was good
It was bad,
But it was real
And that's all you have
In the end our love mattered
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
All it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay (I won't make you stay)
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
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personally, i find this song freaky. here is this man telling a woman "if you want to leave it is okay, cuz i will find you, you cant escape." now, if a man told me this, i would be very afraid probably try to run and hide. but than he procedes to inform this worried woman "you can run you can hide but you cant escape my love" ouch. the freakiness of this song just went up ten points. this reminds me of pepe la pew (the skunk) who constantly chases after that poor cat. she runs "up and down" but cant get away, HE IS ALWAYS THERE. as my good friend says "some people call it stalking, i call it love" well here is a prime example.