"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.
Silent to the dark
Small talk on the radio
It seems I am going nowhere today
Small talk gets you nowhere choose
Between a curtain or a star
And I'm silent to the dark
'cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
Small talk on the radio
It seems I am going nowhere today
(not today)
Small talk gets you nowhere
I'm silent to the dark and tepid
Only when you ask
'cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
And you can do anything you want
Yeah you can anything you want
You can do anything you want
It doesn't matter
It doesn't matter
'Cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone
To talk to
To talk to
To talk to
'Cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
Small talk on the radio
It seems I am going nowhere today
Small talk gets you nowhere choose
Between a curtain or a star
And I'm silent to the dark
'cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
Small talk on the radio
It seems I am going nowhere today
(not today)
Small talk gets you nowhere
I'm silent to the dark and tepid
Only when you ask
'cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
And you can do anything you want
Yeah you can anything you want
You can do anything you want
It doesn't matter
It doesn't matter
'Cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
When I needed someone
To talk to
To talk to
To talk to
'Cause when I needed someone to talk to
You were the only one around
Small cost, it pays to be alone
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Dusty Springfield
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