"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.
Light a light my friend
Before it dies I'll be back again
And some things will never change
But we can put things right that life has disaranged
Though you seem so far away
It seems to me that you are here
Yes I close my eyes I see your face so clear
Yea we gotta take a chance and all my troubles'll disappear
'cause I believe in a romance
And it'll all flame out
The blaze hides a burning flame
It'll all burn on
And as time goes by
I'm gona love you more and more
I'm never ever giving' up on you
But I'm sometimes feeling blue
And one day I know our hearts will beat in time
Some day I'm gona show you all the things I feel inside
We will survive some quarrels, cigarettes and whiskey bottles
But all the time my love is true
Yes you are my pair of shoes
Smiling from behind the window right into my soul
And I know no matter what the price tag's gonna say
You'll get a grand piece of my heart
And I feel
That this is just the part of the start
And it'll all flame out
The blaze hides a burning flame
It'll all burn on
As time goes by
I'm gona love you more and more
I'm never ever giving' up on love
But I'm sometimes needin' more
And one day I know
We'll sit in front of a window
No heart bleeds and we watch the snow covering the streets
But for now it's true that sometimes when I think of you
I'm feelin blue
Before it dies I'll be back again
And some things will never change
But we can put things right that life has disaranged
Though you seem so far away
It seems to me that you are here
Yes I close my eyes I see your face so clear
Yea we gotta take a chance and all my troubles'll disappear
'cause I believe in a romance
And it'll all flame out
The blaze hides a burning flame
It'll all burn on
And as time goes by
I'm gona love you more and more
I'm never ever giving' up on you
But I'm sometimes feeling blue
And one day I know our hearts will beat in time
Some day I'm gona show you all the things I feel inside
We will survive some quarrels, cigarettes and whiskey bottles
But all the time my love is true
Yes you are my pair of shoes
Smiling from behind the window right into my soul
And I know no matter what the price tag's gonna say
You'll get a grand piece of my heart
And I feel
That this is just the part of the start
And it'll all flame out
The blaze hides a burning flame
It'll all burn on
As time goes by
I'm gona love you more and more
I'm never ever giving' up on love
But I'm sometimes needin' more
And one day I know
We'll sit in front of a window
No heart bleeds and we watch the snow covering the streets
But for now it's true that sometimes when I think of you
I'm feelin blue
Lyrics submitted by pessimistic_panther
Sometimes Lyrics as written by Les Reed Barry Mason
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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