"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.
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
I scream
I scream
I scream so much
You know what I mean this electric stream
And my tears in league with the
Wires and energy and my machine
This is my beautiful dream
I'm hurting no one
Hurting no one
Hurting no one
Hurting no one
I want to give you everything
I want to give you energy
I want to give a good thing
I want to give you everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
In one final scream of love who could climb
This high she looks beautiful like a child
I feel tears
And I want to scream
You know what I mean cause this is hurting no one
Am, an eraser of love
Hurt the necessary feeling
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
I scream
I scream
I scream so much
You know what I mean this electric stream
And my tears in league with the
Wires and energy and my machine
This is my beautiful dream
I'm hurting no one
Hurting no one
Hurting no one
Hurting no one
I want to give you everything
I want to give you energy
I want to give a good thing
I want to give you everything
Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything
In one final scream of love who could climb
This high she looks beautiful like a child
I feel tears
And I want to scream
You know what I mean cause this is hurting no one
Am, an eraser of love
Hurt the necessary feeling
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Why don't you call me, I feel like flying in two
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
Am, an eraser of love, am, an eraser of love
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