"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.
(If at first in love you lose)
(Don't give up, try again)
And love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Ooo Yeah
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Yeah
So you wanted to be
Everything you'd heard him say he'd always needed
But, you're my everything and you mean the world to me
Were things that he never said
It's such a silly thing
For you to say
That you don't want love around
Don't you know that ...
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around), around
Ooo Yeah
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around)
Yeah
I wish there could be
The kind of love
Where there would be no wrong (No wrong, never be no wrong)
So that heartache and pain
And the misery of a bad love
Would all be gone
To get over the first love
Is kinda hard, baby
But, don't let it get you down
Don't you know that ...
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Ooo, Yeah
Love is gonna be better (Yeah)
Better than ever, (Oooh Yeah) Yeah
The second time around
Yeah
To get over the first love
Is kinda hard, baby
But, don't let it get you down
Trust me, baby
(Love will be better)
If you trust me, baby
(Better than ever) (Try me)
You can love me, baby
(The second time around)
I really do believe you should try me, baby
(Love will be better) Yeah
(Better than ever) (Try me)
Try me Yeah
(The second time around) (Around, around)
(Love will be better)
If you trust me, baby
(Better than ever)
You can love me, baby
(The second time around)
I really do believe
(Around, around)
(Love will be better)
I know
(Better than ever)
Next time it will
(The second time around)
Your love
(Around, around)
(Don't give up, try again)
And love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Ooo Yeah
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Yeah
So you wanted to be
Everything you'd heard him say he'd always needed
But, you're my everything and you mean the world to me
Were things that he never said
It's such a silly thing
For you to say
That you don't want love around
Don't you know that ...
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around), around
Ooo Yeah
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around)
Yeah
I wish there could be
The kind of love
Where there would be no wrong (No wrong, never be no wrong)
So that heartache and pain
And the misery of a bad love
Would all be gone
To get over the first love
Is kinda hard, baby
But, don't let it get you down
Don't you know that ...
Love will be better (Yeah), better than ever (Oooh Yeah)
The second time (Around) around
Ooo, Yeah
Love is gonna be better (Yeah)
Better than ever, (Oooh Yeah) Yeah
The second time around
Yeah
To get over the first love
Is kinda hard, baby
But, don't let it get you down
Trust me, baby
(Love will be better)
If you trust me, baby
(Better than ever) (Try me)
You can love me, baby
(The second time around)
I really do believe you should try me, baby
(Love will be better) Yeah
(Better than ever) (Try me)
Try me Yeah
(The second time around) (Around, around)
(Love will be better)
If you trust me, baby
(Better than ever)
You can love me, baby
(The second time around)
I really do believe
(Around, around)
(Love will be better)
I know
(Better than ever)
Next time it will
(The second time around)
Your love
(Around, around)
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
The Second Time Around Lyrics as written by Luther Vandross
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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