"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.
woke up hung like a ton of bricks don't know where the hell i am whos this naked next to me what did i do i gotta pee can't work or go to school today can't remember if i do that anyways. got some money got no cllue the world's a mess what can i do. i hate my life i hate my life crashed the car lost the job i'm dirty smelly total slob, lot's of sex little love stimulation no satisfaction. life is hard life is stress life is such a pain in the ass saturday nite, i'm not dressed how can i go on i hate my life i hate my life your life's so bad theyre gonna take it take it all away, complain complain life sucks anyway it it's all so hard let them take it all away. why the competition why stress to death be happy with waht you have most have so much less i hope some day we realize how good it really is. yeah, i may hate my life at times but i always try to live
Lyrics submitted by punker87
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I don't think this song is about them hating their lives, but them making fun of everyone who freaks out about the little things. Like being sober on a Saturday, or Crashing your car and losing your job... fuck it all like it says "life may suck at times but just try and live" its all you got to do, life is nothing more than that.