"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.
Sometimes in the morning, my coffee gets ice cold,
And I'll burn up three cigarettes, 'fore I have my first smoke.
Miss my exit on the way to work every now and then.
I always blame it on the traffic when they ask me where I've been.
And in a crowded elevator, I'll start hummin' that ol' song.
There's no way of knowin' when that urge will come along.
I've been stuck in some meeting, looked down at my legal pad.
I'd see hearts and flowers and butterflies, and I can't help but laugh.
That's just a dirt road, summer '89.
That's just a back seat, and some Muscadine wine.
That's just auburn hair brushing 'cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy,
But that's just Jessie.
An' sometimes in the evening, I hear barefeet in the hall,
And I see your slender silhouette, dance across the wall.
Then I catch the sent of jasmine perfume in the wind,
And I know it's her sweet memory coming back again.
That's just a dirt road, summer '89.
That's just a back seat, and some Muscadine wine.
That's just auburn hair brushing 'cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy.
But that's just Jessie, in a white cotton dress.
That's just a wildfire that I ain't put out yet.
That's just auburn hair brushing cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy,
But that's just Jessie.
And I'll burn up three cigarettes, 'fore I have my first smoke.
Miss my exit on the way to work every now and then.
I always blame it on the traffic when they ask me where I've been.
And in a crowded elevator, I'll start hummin' that ol' song.
There's no way of knowin' when that urge will come along.
I've been stuck in some meeting, looked down at my legal pad.
I'd see hearts and flowers and butterflies, and I can't help but laugh.
That's just a dirt road, summer '89.
That's just a back seat, and some Muscadine wine.
That's just auburn hair brushing 'cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy,
But that's just Jessie.
An' sometimes in the evening, I hear barefeet in the hall,
And I see your slender silhouette, dance across the wall.
Then I catch the sent of jasmine perfume in the wind,
And I know it's her sweet memory coming back again.
That's just a dirt road, summer '89.
That's just a back seat, and some Muscadine wine.
That's just auburn hair brushing 'cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy.
But that's just Jessie, in a white cotton dress.
That's just a wildfire that I ain't put out yet.
That's just auburn hair brushing cross my cheek.
And those"kiss me" green eyes smilin' back at me.
That's just my mind, jumpin' fences once again.
But, I'll be fine, once I get it roped back in.
I know sometimes I may act a little crazy,
But that's just Jessie.
Lyrics submitted by silver_lining
That's Just Jessie Lyrics as written by Patrick Jason Matthews Kevin Denny
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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