"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.
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Do you remember
All of the joy we found last spring
Oh baby
So good together
We never worried about a thing
No no
But now I see such a distance in your eyes
And the seasons come between us
I can't find my paradise
Without your love I'm a little child lost in the world
Mmm, come on baby
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Walking in circles
Thinking if all we had was gone
Oh yeah
My life would be worthless
Never known emotions could run this strong
Oh, you don't know
What went on inside of me
When you said that you'd be leaving
'Cause I hurt you selfishly
Without your love I'm as hopeless
As the earth without the sun
Oh come on baby
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
So let's not fall apart
Like all those other lovers
I know if we trust
Love will leave it up to us
Oh
Oh, say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Stay (stay)
Stay
Save our love
Save our love
Do you remember
All of the joy we found last spring
Oh baby
So good together
We never worried about a thing
No no
But now I see such a distance in your eyes
And the seasons come between us
I can't find my paradise
Without your love I'm a little child lost in the world
Mmm, come on baby
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Walking in circles
Thinking if all we had was gone
Oh yeah
My life would be worthless
Never known emotions could run this strong
Oh, you don't know
What went on inside of me
When you said that you'd be leaving
'Cause I hurt you selfishly
Without your love I'm as hopeless
As the earth without the sun
Oh come on baby
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
Save our love
So let's not fall apart
Like all those other lovers
I know if we trust
Love will leave it up to us
Oh
Oh, say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Say it's not too late
I know there's time enough
Help me darling
We got to save our love
Save our love
Stay close beside me
'Cause the sky is stormy now
Come on baby, come on and save our love
Save our love
Stay (stay)
Stay
Lyrics submitted by deathbypetals
Save Our Love Lyrics as written by Eddie Chacon Anne Preven
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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