"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.
LOLITA
Why don't you go back to the hell from which you came
showing me that girlfriends and psychotics are the same
first you say we're dating and it's easy in the start
then I'm running for my life the minute we're apart
when she whispered her name Lolita
when she whispered to me your mine
nothing but a warning sign
by now I'm wondering what has happened to your head
telling me your ex-boyfriend is here and wants me dead
then I find to stalking me wherever I go
ask me where I've been when I'm positive you know
when she whispered her name Lolita
when she whispered to me your mine
nothing but a warning
what in the hell did I do to deserve you
psycho girl, you're wasting my time.
Why don't you go back to the hell from which you came
showing me that girlfriends and psychotics are the same
first you say we're dating and it's easy in the start
then I'm running for my life the minute we're apart
when she whispered her name Lolita
when she whispered to me your mine
nothing but a warning sign
by now I'm wondering what has happened to your head
telling me your ex-boyfriend is here and wants me dead
then I find to stalking me wherever I go
ask me where I've been when I'm positive you know
when she whispered her name Lolita
when she whispered to me your mine
nothing but a warning
what in the hell did I do to deserve you
psycho girl, you're wasting my time.
Lyrics submitted by pUnK-jUnKiE
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