"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.
Oh Daddy
You know you make me cry
How can you love me
I don't understand why
Oh Daddy
If I can make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to be me
Oh Daddy
You soothe me with your smile
You're letting me know
You're the best thing in my life
Oh Daddy
If I could make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to me
Why are you right when I'm so wrong
I'm so weak but you're so strong
Everything you do is just alright
And I can't walk away from you
Baby, if I tried
Why are you right when I'm so wrong
I'm so weak but you're so strong
Everything you do is just alright
And I can't walk away from you
Baby, if I tried
Oh Daddy
You soothe me with your smile
You're letting me know
You're the best thing in my life
Oh Daddy
If I could make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to me
Yes, it's got to me
Yes, it's got to me
You know you make me cry
How can you love me
I don't understand why
Oh Daddy
If I can make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to be me
Oh Daddy
You soothe me with your smile
You're letting me know
You're the best thing in my life
Oh Daddy
If I could make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to me
Why are you right when I'm so wrong
I'm so weak but you're so strong
Everything you do is just alright
And I can't walk away from you
Baby, if I tried
Why are you right when I'm so wrong
I'm so weak but you're so strong
Everything you do is just alright
And I can't walk away from you
Baby, if I tried
Oh Daddy
You soothe me with your smile
You're letting me know
You're the best thing in my life
Oh Daddy
If I could make you see
If there's been a fool around
It's got to be me
Yes, it's got to me
Yes, it's got to me
Yes, it's got to me
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This song isn't about abuse or an unhealthy relationship with a father, but McVie wrote this song about Mick Fleetwood, the "father" of Fleetwood Mac. The McVie's and Buckingham Nicks were both have relationship troubles and this song was inspired from the drama going on.
@elles94 <br /> <br /> Close. Mick Fleetwood had an affair with Stevie Nicks in 1977 whilst he was married to Jenny Boyd (with kids), whilst this song was being written. <br /> <br /> Its said to be a soliloquy by McVie and Nicks about their relationship with Fleetwood. The song is a huge dig at Fleetwood. Listen to the tone. Its rather condescending:<br /> <br /> Oh daddy...."Why are you right when I'm so wrong, I'm so weak but you're so strong" <br /> <br /> It drips with sarcasm. Imagine when you're fighting with your SO and you said that. There is no way to read that but in a sarcastic tone. <br /> <br /> You have to remember that the Rumours album was filled with a huge amount of hurt and anger, especially after the Fleetwood album where the band members relationships were self-destructing whilst they were having affairs with each other. <br /> <br /> I think the girls were angry at Fleetwood. As the core part of the band, the man who supposedly the most stable (married with kids), the one who appeared so wise, good and honest. <br /> <br /> And yet he abused the people he was meant to be responsible for. Like a father abusing his children. <br /> <br /> Their saying that Fleetwood is a seductive bastard who thinks his always right. <br /> <br /> And this isn't the only song that they talk about Fleetwood. In the 1975 Sugar Dady song he explained the formation of his position as the sugar daddy (and how they didn't want his love) but where he provided drugs, money and alcohol to the women, providing consul like a father figure . Ultimately feeding his own ego was having affairs with these women who looked up at him. He is a particularly flawed person. <br /> Boyd divorced him in 75, he got her back, had an affair with Nicks (and probably McVie) and then after getting (immigrated) the kids & Boyd into the US ended up divorcing again in 78. And that's just a three year period of a torrid history & band who's antics have barely been documented. <br /> <br /> But then again, Nicks and McVie weren't children. They were adult women who were master song writers who were able to write powerfully about their relationships with these men like Fleetwood. They were hardly innocents.
@elles94 Yes, reading the lyrics again you could say that Christine is being loaded with sarcasm, she is British.