"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.
Come and lay right on my bed, sit and drink some wine
I'll try not to make you cry
And if you'd get inside my head, then you'd understand
Then you'd understand me
Why I've felt so alone, why I kept myself from love
And you became my favorite drug
So let me take you right now and swallow you down,
I need you inside
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
Do you think that this is right, or is it really wrong
I know that this is what we've been wanting
And all this is burning in my soul, it fills up to my throat
It fills up till my heart is breaking
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
Now, we can both learn
Somehow, you'll see it's all we have
Love, it keeps us together
And I need love
When I wake up without you, knowing you're not there
I'm only feeling half as good
Well I'm gonna find a way
To wrap you in my arms, you make me feel alive
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
I'll try not to make you cry
And if you'd get inside my head, then you'd understand
Then you'd understand me
Why I've felt so alone, why I kept myself from love
And you became my favorite drug
So let me take you right now and swallow you down,
I need you inside
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
Do you think that this is right, or is it really wrong
I know that this is what we've been wanting
And all this is burning in my soul, it fills up to my throat
It fills up till my heart is breaking
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
Now, we can both learn
Somehow, you'll see it's all we have
Love, it keeps us together
And I need love
When I wake up without you, knowing you're not there
I'm only feeling half as good
Well I'm gonna find a way
To wrap you in my arms, you make me feel alive
If we had this night together
If we had a moment to ourselves
If we had this night together, then we'd be
Unstoppable
Lyrics submitted by GoOgOoGiRL77
Unstoppable Lyrics as written by Alex Band Aaron Kamin
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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