"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.
I was hangin' off a balcony over the strip
Checkin' out the freaks below
It was a very good night to gt a grip
Or fall into my own creep show
Danglin' like some drool from a mad dog's mouth
Dyin' for some sympathy
When I heard a sweet young voice callin' up my way
And this is what she said to me
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Well I followed her directions and gave it some time
Things began to work out somehow
'Til one night eatin' chinese I gt a call from Ruiz
He said you better come over right now
He was takin' a bath in his best green suit
Buzzin' like a wet grenade
He was tryin' to wash away his dirty blues
With some bubbles and a razor blade
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Yeah yeah just hang on...hang on
Yeah, yeah yeah....
So when you're hangin' off a balcony over the strip
Wonderin' where it all went wrong
Just remember there's a band settin' up on your ship
Waitin' to play your song
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Checkin' out the freaks below
It was a very good night to gt a grip
Or fall into my own creep show
Danglin' like some drool from a mad dog's mouth
Dyin' for some sympathy
When I heard a sweet young voice callin' up my way
And this is what she said to me
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Well I followed her directions and gave it some time
Things began to work out somehow
'Til one night eatin' chinese I gt a call from Ruiz
He said you better come over right now
He was takin' a bath in his best green suit
Buzzin' like a wet grenade
He was tryin' to wash away his dirty blues
With some bubbles and a razor blade
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Yeah yeah just hang on...hang on
Yeah, yeah yeah....
So when you're hangin' off a balcony over the strip
Wonderin' where it all went wrong
Just remember there's a band settin' up on your ship
Waitin' to play your song
It's alright it's o.k.
Don't you know tomorrow's another day
Don't look now here comes the dawn
Baby sometimes you gotta just hang on
Lyrics submitted by rabidpenguin
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