"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.
This is a start
That I know I'll believe in
So I'm leavin' everything behind
Keeping the parts
That I know I'll be needing
And I breed to be a better kind
And I'm leavin' everyone behind
This is the age
When my past should be gone
But it's just stronger than the aims I have Turning the pages
I used to hang on to
I was young and I have changed my mind
And I'm leaving everything behind
New beginning again
A bit closer
New beginning again
A little bit closer
New beginning again
A bit closer to the end
This is the time
It's a delicate line
To the beginning of what's yet to come
Lifetimes of changes
A strange generation
Explanations never come in time
So I'm leavin' everything behind
That I know I'll believe in
So I'm leavin' everything behind
Keeping the parts
That I know I'll be needing
And I breed to be a better kind
And I'm leavin' everyone behind
This is the age
When my past should be gone
But it's just stronger than the aims I have Turning the pages
I used to hang on to
I was young and I have changed my mind
And I'm leaving everything behind
New beginning again
A bit closer
New beginning again
A little bit closer
New beginning again
A bit closer to the end
This is the time
It's a delicate line
To the beginning of what's yet to come
Lifetimes of changes
A strange generation
Explanations never come in time
So I'm leavin' everything behind
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