"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.
Would ya spare a minute?
Give me a single chance
To look in your eyes
Let me hold your hands
I want to get close enough
To read you
Understand you
Open up your heart
Open up your mind
Nobody needs another stalker in your life
I'm only here to help you learn to love me
To know me
[Chorus]
I need a hook so you won't be the one that got away
I need a look that stuns you, makes you want to stay.
Don't want to speak in case it comes out wrong
Don't want to blink 'cause in a second you could be gone
I need a twist to help me to turn the story round
I need a bridge to cross this dangerous ground
Meet me in the middle like I want you to
I gotta find your heart to shoot my arrow through
Did ya see me staring
You caught my eye
Don't turn around
Don't walk away
The night is young, can we get together?
Got so many questions
Feelings I can't explain
We're worlds apart
Don't even know your name
I'm longing to give you my heart
[Chorus]
Turn around, don't evaporate
Like you never came
Turn around don't be a ghost
Forever never there to haunt me
Sliding doors
They aren't just on a train
We're alone on a platform in the rain
There's a chance
And it won't come again
Turn around your whole life has changed
[Chorus]
Turn around
Turn around
Give me a single chance
To look in your eyes
Let me hold your hands
I want to get close enough
To read you
Understand you
Open up your heart
Open up your mind
Nobody needs another stalker in your life
I'm only here to help you learn to love me
To know me
[Chorus]
I need a hook so you won't be the one that got away
I need a look that stuns you, makes you want to stay.
Don't want to speak in case it comes out wrong
Don't want to blink 'cause in a second you could be gone
I need a twist to help me to turn the story round
I need a bridge to cross this dangerous ground
Meet me in the middle like I want you to
I gotta find your heart to shoot my arrow through
Did ya see me staring
You caught my eye
Don't turn around
Don't walk away
The night is young, can we get together?
Got so many questions
Feelings I can't explain
We're worlds apart
Don't even know your name
I'm longing to give you my heart
[Chorus]
Turn around, don't evaporate
Like you never came
Turn around don't be a ghost
Forever never there to haunt me
Sliding doors
They aren't just on a train
We're alone on a platform in the rain
There's a chance
And it won't come again
Turn around your whole life has changed
[Chorus]
Turn around
Turn around
Lyrics submitted by sparklefairy
The One That Got Away Lyrics as written by M Tafaro Andrew Marcus Frampton
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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