"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.
I don't wanna live without your love
Ooh, mmh, yeah
I can't imagine
Looking in someone else's eyes
What we have surpasses
Even paradise
It's hard to fathom
Reaching for someone else's hand
What we share is magic
Heaven had a plan
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch-feels so right
Unending passion
Somehow the fire never dies
What we share
Is everlasting
Love without demise, oh yes
He made it happen
Placed so much joy into our hands
What we dreamed
We finally captured
Heaven took command
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life (in my life)
I can't get enough
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life (in my life, in my life)
I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch, feels so right
I don't wanna live without your love
Must have been sent from up above
Just can't get enough
I don't wanna live without your love
Must have been sent from up above (must have been sent from up above)
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (I don't wanna live without your love)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (I don't wanna live without your love)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life, yeah, oh, yeah
I can't get enough
Ooh, mmh, yeah
I can't imagine
Looking in someone else's eyes
What we have surpasses
Even paradise
It's hard to fathom
Reaching for someone else's hand
What we share is magic
Heaven had a plan
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch-feels so right
Unending passion
Somehow the fire never dies
What we share
Is everlasting
Love without demise, oh yes
He made it happen
Placed so much joy into our hands
What we dreamed
We finally captured
Heaven took command
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life (in my life)
I can't get enough
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life (in my life, in my life)
I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch, feels so right
I don't wanna live without your love
Must have been sent from up above
Just can't get enough
I don't wanna live without your love
Must have been sent from up above (must have been sent from up above)
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (I don't wanna live without your love)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (just can't get enough)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life
Ooh, I can't get enough (I don't wanna live without your love)
Of your touch, feels so right
Sent from up above
So much love
In my life, yeah, oh, yeah
I can't get enough
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Nobody posted on this song either?!?! OMG. This was my jam back in the day. I used to blast it while cleaning my room or this is the song Barbie would sing when she was on stage...
Good times.