"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.
So you think that it's over
That your love has finally reached the end
Any time you call, night or day
I'll be right there for you if you need a friend
It's gonna take a little time
Time is sure to mend your broken heart
Don't you even worry, pretty darlin'
I know you'll find love again
Yeah
Love is all around you
Love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
Love is all around you, yeah
Love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
Love will find a way
Darlin', love is gonna find a way
Find its way back to you
Love will find a way
So look around, open your eyes
Love is gonna find a way
Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way
Love will find a way
Love's gonna find a way back to you, yeah
I know, I know, I know, I know
That your love has finally reached the end
Any time you call, night or day
I'll be right there for you if you need a friend
It's gonna take a little time
Time is sure to mend your broken heart
Don't you even worry, pretty darlin'
I know you'll find love again
Yeah
Love is all around you
Love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
Love is all around you, yeah
Love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
Love will find a way
Darlin', love is gonna find a way
Find its way back to you
Love will find a way
So look around, open your eyes
Love is gonna find a way
Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way
Love will find a way
Love's gonna find a way back to you, yeah
I know, I know, I know, I know
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Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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This song always makes me cry. Not because of the lyrics, but because it reminds me so much of my teenage years. My favorite lyric is (waiting for you is this love made just for two). I always thought the meaning was a friend of someone's has a bad breakup and is doubting ever finding someone. The friend is telling her "you'll find it...just be patient". It will come when you least expect it. I also thought that the lyric "love is going to find a way back to you" could have a bit of a double meaning. It may be man woman love, o any love that is going to go back to where it belongs. When I got married to my first husband, I made sure this was played during the reception. My mom came up to me and we were slow dancing to it (yes, we do mother/daughter dancing in the mid-west) and she was singing at the top of her lungs. I said "Mom! How do you know the lyrics of this song?" She said "because I only had to listen to it OVER AND OVER AND OVER again when you were a teenager!" I may have to go listen to it now. :-)