"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.
No one else can ever
No one else can ever
No one else can ever
Yeah, uh
Yeah, uh
What did I
Do to deserve such a man so special in my life
So many days and nights
I get on the go while I sit and wait for mister right
Baby, then came you
Laidback with your sexy smile
When you move your body you just drive me wild
If you're feeling me, baby, tell me now
Because I want you, I want you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I'm feelin' love in the deepest fall, give you the
Keys and all
You even when helped me when the beef was on
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Can't you see
How this love affair would be good for you and me
'Cause baby, I swear no other man can do
The things that you do when you love me
Oh, baby, you're my lifetime fantasy
So smooth, love the way you walk
I just love to hear when you talk your talk
So if you're feeling me, baby, let me know
Because I want you, I want you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I'm feelin' love in the deepest fall, give you the
Keys and all
You even when helped me when the beef was on
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you, babe
Slow down, love
Don't you see me with my girl, what you thinkin' it
Was
I know you're used to seein' me in the clubs
Different chicks, sippin' Cris', just a million in
Dubs
But I've changed, only got eyes for her
Believe me, ain't no girl dividin' us
We could maybe elope, have a baby and all
'Cause I don't wanna be a player no more
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Baby, baby, baby ,baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
No one else can ever
No one else can ever
Yeah, uh
Yeah, uh
What did I
Do to deserve such a man so special in my life
So many days and nights
I get on the go while I sit and wait for mister right
Baby, then came you
Laidback with your sexy smile
When you move your body you just drive me wild
If you're feeling me, baby, tell me now
Because I want you, I want you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I'm feelin' love in the deepest fall, give you the
Keys and all
You even when helped me when the beef was on
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Can't you see
How this love affair would be good for you and me
'Cause baby, I swear no other man can do
The things that you do when you love me
Oh, baby, you're my lifetime fantasy
So smooth, love the way you walk
I just love to hear when you talk your talk
So if you're feeling me, baby, let me know
Because I want you, I want you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I'm feelin' love in the deepest fall, give you the
Keys and all
You even when helped me when the beef was on
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you, babe
Slow down, love
Don't you see me with my girl, what you thinkin' it
Was
I know you're used to seein' me in the clubs
Different chicks, sippin' Cris', just a million in
Dubs
But I've changed, only got eyes for her
Believe me, ain't no girl dividin' us
We could maybe elope, have a baby and all
'Cause I don't wanna be a player no more
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Baby, no one else
Can ever want you like I do
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Tell me what you feel
'Cause I'm feeling something real
I feel the same way, you make the Don say
Girl, I want you, girl, I need you
Baby, baby, baby ,baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Lyrics submitted by TonyHelms29624
I Want You Lyrics as written by Gregory Bruno Ariadna Sodi Miranda
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