"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.
White ladder
Water and wine
Forever
Crying oh time
Don't wanna
Feel tonight
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet love
White river
Thunder and war
How many
Time, oh no
Don't wanna
Feel no more
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet, sweet love
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
A burning flame
Tall order
Tremble inside
Forever
Crying oh man, yeah, yeah, yeah
Don't wanna
Feel tonight
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet, sweet love
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
A burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
White ladder
Water and wine
Don't wanna feel tonight
Water and wine
Forever
Crying oh time
Don't wanna
Feel tonight
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet love
White river
Thunder and war
How many
Time, oh no
Don't wanna
Feel no more
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet, sweet love
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
A burning flame
Tall order
Tremble inside
Forever
Crying oh man, yeah, yeah, yeah
Don't wanna
Feel tonight
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet, sweet love
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
A burning flame
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
White ladder
Water and wine
Don't wanna feel tonight
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Lyrics drummed up to fit with a pre written song? The music is too simplistic for this to be true. This song is about a string of one nighters.
To the night another body To the night another name To the night another valentine ..... White ladder Water and wine Don't wanna feel tonight