"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.
[Tommy] What did i do wrong?
[Cerys] Oh you nearly drove me cuckoo
[Tommy] Am i really all that bad?
[Cerys] You're worse than hannibal lecter, charlie manson, freddy Krueger
[Tommy] Why are we still together?
[Cerys] Oh i can't leave you till you're dead f
[Tommy] You mean till death do us part
[Cerys] I mean like cyanide, strangulation or an axe to your head
[Tommy] It was lucky for us i turned the radio on
[Cerys] They say that music soothes the savage
[Tommy] There was something in that voice that stopped us seeing red
[Both] The two of us would surely have ended up dead
You stopped us from killing each other (tom jones, tom jones)
You'll never know but you saved our lives (tom jones, tom jones)
[Cerys] I've never thrown my knickers at you
[Tommy] And i don't come from wales
[Tommy] Still haven't solved our problem
[Cerys] You mean we hate each other's guts
[Tommy] Still want to poison your
[Cerys] And i still want to cut off your
[Tommy] I phoned the marriage guidance
[Cerys] I tied the phone line round your
[Tommy] I'm sick of all this hatred
[Cerys] Well that'll be the arsenic making you sick
[Tommy] You were about to drive me over the edge of a cliff
[Cerys] Oh you nearly drove me cuckoo
[Tommy] Am i really all that bad?
[Cerys] You're worse than hannibal lecter, charlie manson, freddy Krueger
[Tommy] Why are we still together?
[Cerys] Oh i can't leave you till you're dead f
[Tommy] You mean till death do us part
[Cerys] I mean like cyanide, strangulation or an axe to your head
[Tommy] It was lucky for us i turned the radio on
[Cerys] They say that music soothes the savage
[Tommy] There was something in that voice that stopped us seeing red
[Both] The two of us would surely have ended up dead
You stopped us from killing each other (tom jones, tom jones)
You'll never know but you saved our lives (tom jones, tom jones)
[Cerys] I've never thrown my knickers at you
[Tommy] And i don't come from wales
[Tommy] Still haven't solved our problem
[Cerys] You mean we hate each other's guts
[Tommy] Still want to poison your
[Cerys] And i still want to cut off your
[Tommy] I phoned the marriage guidance
[Cerys] I tied the phone line round your
[Tommy] I'm sick of all this hatred
[Cerys] Well that'll be the arsenic making you sick
[Tommy] You were about to drive me over the edge of a cliff
Lyrics submitted by Tony_P 5000
The Ballad of Tom Jones Lyrics as written by Francis Griffiths James Edwards
Lyrics © Phoenix Music International Ltd, Ultra Tunes
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EEEEEEEEEYYYY!!! how come no comment? i think cerys and that bloke with bad teeth from Space (tommy? timmy?) did one hell of a job with this song. This is my wedding song. you know it.