"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.
Hey there Luna I'd like to tell you
How sad am I so love sick I could die
Needing water my neck's stiff my head hurts
Been looking up all night been looking up the
Moon she's so bright
She's so bright she's so clean
I'm telling you she's everything
I'd give it all my sorry eyes
Give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Told by the doctor to make a figure
Needles to get her
She'll be your luna
I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
Give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
I stuck them in, I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
I'd give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
I'd let her walk all over me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Been biting my memory
Been biting my memory
How sad am I so love sick I could die
Needing water my neck's stiff my head hurts
Been looking up all night been looking up the
Moon she's so bright
She's so bright she's so clean
I'm telling you she's everything
I'd give it all my sorry eyes
Give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Told by the doctor to make a figure
Needles to get her
She'll be your luna
I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
Give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
I stuck them in, I stuck them in real clean
I stuck them in a mile
I drew her down on me
I drew her with a smile
I'd give it all you see
I'd give my sorry eyes
I'd give just everything she's got me so mesmerized
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
It's just the things that she does to me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Yeah I wish I was Yuri-G
I'd let her walk all over me
Yeah I thought I was Yuri-G
Been biting my memory
Been biting my memory
Been biting my memory
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I really have very little idea what this song is about! Polly does take on different roles as the narrator. There is no way of knowing who exactly the narrator of this one is - be they male or female.
Polly is an artist, lyricist and something of the poet, I'd bet that finding out that Manga has a term Yuri loosely meaning lesbian would have the fireworks exploding. Connecting Yuri/Lesbian with Yuri Gagarin is obvious. IF that is what she has done, then it brings in the moon - a pagan symbol of the female and then she has the whole pulling down the moon ritual to play with too!