"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.
Hey Annie,
Well look at you.
Is that a new boy stuck on your shoe?
Come on Annie, How is it so?
You've always got a new bubble to blow.
I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna get done.
I'm just a girl, that's only chewing for fun.
I spit it out when all the flavor has gone.
Wrap him round your finger like you're playing with gum.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no.
Was there anything else?
Hey Annie, you used to be,
The only girl to take it seriously.
Come on Annie, tell us your trick.
On how you keep on getting boys to stick?
Okay, I'll tell you but you'll never look back
It's my selection; it's my pick of the pack.
Well, hot dog I'm a chewing machine.
It makes me smile, and it keeps my teeth clean.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
No you're not the one.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh No!
I don't want to settle down, I just want to have fun.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to chew gum.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to have fun.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to chew gum.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
No you're not the one.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no!
Oh no!
Well look at you.
Is that a new boy stuck on your shoe?
Come on Annie, How is it so?
You've always got a new bubble to blow.
I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna get done.
I'm just a girl, that's only chewing for fun.
I spit it out when all the flavor has gone.
Wrap him round your finger like you're playing with gum.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no.
Was there anything else?
Hey Annie, you used to be,
The only girl to take it seriously.
Come on Annie, tell us your trick.
On how you keep on getting boys to stick?
Okay, I'll tell you but you'll never look back
It's my selection; it's my pick of the pack.
Well, hot dog I'm a chewing machine.
It makes me smile, and it keeps my teeth clean.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
No you're not the one.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh No!
I don't want to settle down, I just want to have fun.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to chew gum.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to have fun.
I don't want to settle down, I just want to chew gum.
[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
A slip of the tongue
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
You've got it all wrong.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no, oh no!
No you're not the one.
How can you
Think you're chocolate
When you're chewing gum?
Oh no!
Oh no!
Lyrics submitted by xjaredstonex
Chewing Gum Lyrics as written by Richard Phillips Hannah Robinson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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