"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.
Come a day I'll walk this earth
Where steps are taken sure
Come a day though it seem far away
Lines that bind are pure
Had to find it
No way round it
Quick sand had a chance...
So come, come on, come a day
Your eyes are where i'm right at home
Come a day though it seem far away
Stare bears love from stone
Gentleness is what precedes
Before and past the deed
Unafraid of caves and cobwebs
Shade can fade the hate
Time won't let you deny
Time will kiss you goodbye
We will leave you alone
We will leave you
Time extends you a hand
Time defends your command
We will leave you alone
We will leave you
So come a day x3
Where steps are taken sure
Come a day though it seem far away
Lines that bind are pure
Had to find it
No way round it
Quick sand had a chance...
So come, come on, come a day
Your eyes are where i'm right at home
Come a day though it seem far away
Stare bears love from stone
Gentleness is what precedes
Before and past the deed
Unafraid of caves and cobwebs
Shade can fade the hate
Time won't let you deny
Time will kiss you goodbye
We will leave you alone
We will leave you
Time extends you a hand
Time defends your command
We will leave you alone
We will leave you
So come a day x3
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