"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.
Will I ever see, one whose meant to be, when I look at you One for the girl who gets the job done, two for you know who best of none three for the posi-life like the magic number I be the summer I got the feeling under my skin once again it's fisch with festive rhymes to rock and whirl around the world and if you mind is blank here's a fill-in, don't play a villain if your not one got some insight to what life is like, like not a whole lot and all learned my lesson, I'm not a dog so I don't beg the question of why break something you can't fix, she's been done so now she's your remix it's live at the magic house about 1975 when I arrived on time, I'm a twist of mind shot of lime delight enlighten your sight dark to daylight Some things I don't understand like myself so how in the world could I understand someone else but what else can you do when your sick of talking about you, you know, I do and it's just facts of life, life like statues stare back at me meanwhile I write rhymes to wind chimes, my lines come a dime a dozen, wish I wasn't buzzing on the beat so I could get some sleep don't like a freak cause their not for keeps so somewhere in there I'm sure is a lesson, I can give you the answer but that's out of the question of why break something you can't fix he's been done so now he's your remix it's classic my fantastic flight of ideas mostly we get right to the point see you when time recycles and we recite those remember when's, all I to know I learned in kindergarten which is just now starting to sink in
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