"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.
Who is this man
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free
It was his hour at last to put his seal on my fate
Wipe out the past and wipe me clean off the slate
All it would take was a flick of his knife
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase
I am the law and the law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on Earth that we share
It is either Val Jean or Javier
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life he gave me freedom
I should’ve perished by his hand
It was his right
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live but live in Hell
Damned my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed
Shall his sins be forgiven
Shall his crimes be reprieved
And must I now begin to doubt
Who never doubted all these years
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have know is lost in shadow
Is he from Heaven or from Hell
And does he know
By granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so
I am reaching,, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world I cannot hold
I’ll escape now, from that world
From the world of Jean Val Jean
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on.
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free
It was his hour at last to put his seal on my fate
Wipe out the past and wipe me clean off the slate
All it would take was a flick of his knife
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase
I am the law and the law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on Earth that we share
It is either Val Jean or Javier
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life he gave me freedom
I should’ve perished by his hand
It was his right
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live but live in Hell
Damned my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed
Shall his sins be forgiven
Shall his crimes be reprieved
And must I now begin to doubt
Who never doubted all these years
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have know is lost in shadow
Is he from Heaven or from Hell
And does he know
By granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so
I am reaching,, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world I cannot hold
I’ll escape now, from that world
From the world of Jean Val Jean
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on.
Lyrics submitted by Motor27
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