"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.
My heart goes BBB
Every time I think of you
Heart's going BBB
Lost control what shall I do?
'Cause I want to be your lover
Till the end of our lives
I could never miss again
These loving eyes
My heart goes BBB
Every time I think of you
I feel that BBB
No control of what I'll do
Simplicity, complexity, oh what a tragedy
Reality, insanity, strange normality
Incredible, untouchable, but just visual
And I want you, just you but natural
My heart goes BBB
When any mind is touching you
Inside that BB
Only light inside my gloom
Every time I think of you
Heart's going BBB
Lost control what shall I do?
'Cause I want to be your lover
Till the end of our lives
I could never miss again
These loving eyes
My heart goes BBB
Every time I think of you
I feel that BBB
No control of what I'll do
Simplicity, complexity, oh what a tragedy
Reality, insanity, strange normality
Incredible, untouchable, but just visual
And I want you, just you but natural
My heart goes BBB
When any mind is touching you
Inside that BB
Only light inside my gloom
Lyrics submitted by harveyknox
Boum Boum Lyrics as written by Michael Cretu
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is obvious; I love you, I love you too. Let's be together forever. No problem, I feel the same way. Can you feel my heart? Yeah, it's going party party party. You make my life a party. Oh bb, let's get a beer.
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