"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.
You'll have your ups and downs
Don't let them push you out
Cause time is all you've got now
Go make the best of everything you want to be
With ambition pushing forward
Your dreams upon your shoulders
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
You've got your destination
Progress has now been made and you
Will see the way you've wanted it to be
We've only just begun
There's gold that lies in us
Your hesitation's held you long enough
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
The future holds a brighter day for you
You may ask yourself tonight
Is it out of reach, out of reach,
Is it out of reach is it out of reach,
Out of reach, or am I? Or am I?
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Let's just get this started
(where you are tonight)
All you've ever wanted
(its in your eyes)
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Just let it take you where you want to go
Don't let them push you out
Cause time is all you've got now
Go make the best of everything you want to be
With ambition pushing forward
Your dreams upon your shoulders
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
You've got your destination
Progress has now been made and you
Will see the way you've wanted it to be
We've only just begun
There's gold that lies in us
Your hesitation's held you long enough
Though impossible it seems
It's time to just believe
From here on out you're just getting older
Pick up yourself you keep getting closer
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
The future holds a brighter day for you
You may ask yourself tonight
Is it out of reach, out of reach,
Is it out of reach is it out of reach,
Out of reach, or am I? Or am I?
Let's just get it started tonight
All you've ever wanted its in your eyes
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Let's just get this started
(where you are tonight)
All you've ever wanted
(its in your eyes)
Just let it take you where you want to go
Just let it tell you what you want to know
Just let it take you where you want to go
Lyrics submitted by BlocParty35610
We've Only Just Begun Lyrics as written by Roger Nichols Paul Williams
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Tratore, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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