"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.
Little Miss Muffet
Sweet girl's school stuff and
A country smile and charm
Out in the back of my '58 Chevy
She said she'd do me no harm
You know she makes me feel good
Just like a bad girl should
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
Sassy little lassie
Walking right past me
Down in Tennessee
Always a lady
I love Southern ladies
They just know how to please
It's like connecting the dots
Start at the bottom, lick it to the top
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down ,Down down down
You know she makes me feel good
Everyday, any way
(She goes down) all night long
She goes down
She goes down, down, down, down
All of the day
All of the night
Lick those lips
Do you up right
Up and down
Round and round
Round the world
Scream it out
You know she makes me feel good
See'ya out in Hollywood
Flat on my back she goes down
For backstage pass, she goes down
With all of my friends, she goes down
She gives heart attack, she goes
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
You know she makes me feel good
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes
Sweet girl's school stuff and
A country smile and charm
Out in the back of my '58 Chevy
She said she'd do me no harm
You know she makes me feel good
Just like a bad girl should
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
Sassy little lassie
Walking right past me
Down in Tennessee
Always a lady
I love Southern ladies
They just know how to please
It's like connecting the dots
Start at the bottom, lick it to the top
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down ,Down down down
You know she makes me feel good
Everyday, any way
(She goes down) all night long
She goes down
She goes down, down, down, down
All of the day
All of the night
Lick those lips
Do you up right
Up and down
Round and round
Round the world
Scream it out
You know she makes me feel good
See'ya out in Hollywood
Flat on my back she goes down
For backstage pass, she goes down
With all of my friends, she goes down
She gives heart attack, she goes
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
You know she makes me feel good
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
She goes down
She goes down
She goes down, down down down
All night long
She goes down
She goes
Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21
She Goes Down Lyrics as written by Mick Mars Nikki Sixx
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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These lyrics are class!
this song is about bjs...plain and simple hehe (i think so anyway)
Scream it out is definitely spit it out