"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.
She's my kind of rain
Like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling down all night
She sits quietly there
Black water in a jar
Says, "baby, why you trembling like you are?"
So I wait
And I try
I confess like a child
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's the sunset's shadows
She's like Rembrandt's light
She's the history that's made at night
She's my lost companion
She's my dreamin' tree
Together in this brief eternity
Summer days
Winter snow
She's all things to behold
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
So I wait
And I try
I confess all my crimes
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain
Oh, rain on me (she's my kind of rain)
She's my kind of rain (rain, ooh)
She's my kind of rain
Like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling down all night
She sits quietly there
Black water in a jar
Says, "baby, why you trembling like you are?"
So I wait
And I try
I confess like a child
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's the sunset's shadows
She's like Rembrandt's light
She's the history that's made at night
She's my lost companion
She's my dreamin' tree
Together in this brief eternity
Summer days
Winter snow
She's all things to behold
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
So I wait
And I try
I confess all my crimes
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin' down all night
She's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain
Oh, rain on me (she's my kind of rain)
She's my kind of rain (rain, ooh)
She's my kind of rain
Lyrics submitted by Amandarin706
She's My Kind of Rain Lyrics as written by Tommy James Robin Lerner
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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