"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.
You tell me that you're leaving
And I'm trying to understand
I had myself believing
I should take it like a man
But if you gotta go then you gotta know
That it's killing me
And all the things I never seem to show
I gotta make you see
Girl it's been so long, (tell me)
How could it be
One of us knows the two of us don't belong
In each others company
It hurts so much inside, your telling me goodbye
You wanna be free
And knowin' that you're gone and leavin' me behind
I gotta make you see
I gotta make you see
I gotta make you see
I still love you
I still love you
I really, I really love you
I still love you
People tell me
I should win at any cost
But now I see as the smoke clears away
The battle has been lost
I see it in your eyes
You never have to lie
I'm out of your life
Tonight I'll dream away and you can still be mine
But I'm dreamin' a lie
Dreamin' a lie
Makes me wanna die
'Cause I still love you
I still love you
Baby, baby I love you
I still love you
And when I think of all the things you'll never know
There's so much left to say
'Cos girl, now I see the price of losing you
Will be my half to pay
My half to pay
Each and every day
Hear what I say
I still love you
I still love you
I really, I really love you
I still love you
Baby, baby, I love you
I love you
I really, I really love you
And I'm trying to understand
I had myself believing
I should take it like a man
But if you gotta go then you gotta know
That it's killing me
And all the things I never seem to show
I gotta make you see
Girl it's been so long, (tell me)
How could it be
One of us knows the two of us don't belong
In each others company
It hurts so much inside, your telling me goodbye
You wanna be free
And knowin' that you're gone and leavin' me behind
I gotta make you see
I gotta make you see
I gotta make you see
I still love you
I still love you
I really, I really love you
I still love you
People tell me
I should win at any cost
But now I see as the smoke clears away
The battle has been lost
I see it in your eyes
You never have to lie
I'm out of your life
Tonight I'll dream away and you can still be mine
But I'm dreamin' a lie
Dreamin' a lie
Makes me wanna die
'Cause I still love you
I still love you
Baby, baby I love you
I still love you
And when I think of all the things you'll never know
There's so much left to say
'Cos girl, now I see the price of losing you
Will be my half to pay
My half to pay
Each and every day
Hear what I say
I still love you
I still love you
I really, I really love you
I still love you
Baby, baby, I love you
I love you
I really, I really love you
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
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All about losing someone you love!
About not knowing what you have untill it's gone, eventhough the girl could have dumped him in the worse way or cheated on him... he got his 'hell to pay'
this song is so beautiful i love the way that paul stanley puts the hell that he is going through being without his girl in this song! even when he sings it live you can hear the pain of the song i love it!
abou ta very obsessed guy that wants his ex back, great song, love it!
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