"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.
I think I had enough, you know religion, it's tough
It's a state of mind I don't need it!
I'm sending a letter
To my mother
I need some loving
Send it to me
I lost my lover
Unfaithful lover
I need some money
Send it to me
I need consoling
Your boy's feeling lonely
Describe her for me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
If she can't travel
I can take the mule train
I can take the aeroplane
Send it to me
So here I'm begging you
Begging you, begging you
Down on my knees
Baby, please, please, please
You, you, you got to send it
Send it, send it, send it to me
Send her, oh, send her to me
You got to send her
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Yeah, I'm sending a letter
To my sister
In Australia
Sister Marie
Ain't got no doctor
No sense of cover
That needs my loving
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
She won't have to watch her step
She won't have to relocate
I guarantee her personal security
She don't have to be five foot ten
Or blond or brunette
She don't have to be no social hostess
Send her
She may work in a factory
Right next door to me
In my fantasy
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
She could be Romanian
She could be Bubarian
She could be Albanian
She could be Hungarian
She might be Ukrainian
She could be Australian
She could be the Alien
Send her to me
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me
It's a state of mind I don't need it!
I'm sending a letter
To my mother
I need some loving
Send it to me
I lost my lover
Unfaithful lover
I need some money
Send it to me
I need consoling
Your boy's feeling lonely
Describe her for me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
If she can't travel
I can take the mule train
I can take the aeroplane
Send it to me
So here I'm begging you
Begging you, begging you
Down on my knees
Baby, please, please, please
You, you, you got to send it
Send it, send it, send it to me
Send her, oh, send her to me
You got to send her
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Yeah, I'm sending a letter
To my sister
In Australia
Sister Marie
Ain't got no doctor
No sense of cover
That needs my loving
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
Send it to me
She won't have to watch her step
She won't have to relocate
I guarantee her personal security
She don't have to be five foot ten
Or blond or brunette
She don't have to be no social hostess
Send her
She may work in a factory
Right next door to me
In my fantasy
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
Send her to me
She could be Romanian
She could be Bubarian
She could be Albanian
She could be Hungarian
She might be Ukrainian
She could be Australian
She could be the Alien
Send her to me
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me (you got to send it)
Send her to me
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Send It to Me Lyrics as written by Mick Jagger Mick Jagger Keith Richards Richards
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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It could mean Ukranian could mean Uranium could mean what drugs you on could mean your cranium
Mick is saying no matter who this girl is he will take comfort in her. He accepts her for who she is. Everything else is irrelevant.