"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.
In a world far from perfect
It's not always easy to connect
Where everything can be so complicated
I know that simply, you're the best
I don't want nobody else; I only want you
Wanna keep you for myself; it's selfish, but true
I don't want anything to ever come between us
'Cause I don't want nobody else
In a world far from perfect still
One never knows what to expect, so, tell me, what will I do?
So hard to think of you as dearly departed
If only desperation could resurrect
'Cause I don't want nobody else; I only want you
Not some picture on a shelf, no
'Cause that won't carry me through
How does debilitated find the strength to make it through?
'Cause I don't want nobody else, only you
Now I don't want nobody else; I only want you
And not some picture on a shelf, oh no
'Cause that won't carry me through
How does asphyxiated ever find the breath to make it through?
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I don't want nobody else
Only you, only you
It's not always easy to connect
Where everything can be so complicated
I know that simply, you're the best
I don't want nobody else; I only want you
Wanna keep you for myself; it's selfish, but true
I don't want anything to ever come between us
'Cause I don't want nobody else
In a world far from perfect still
One never knows what to expect, so, tell me, what will I do?
So hard to think of you as dearly departed
If only desperation could resurrect
'Cause I don't want nobody else; I only want you
Not some picture on a shelf, no
'Cause that won't carry me through
How does debilitated find the strength to make it through?
'Cause I don't want nobody else, only you
Now I don't want nobody else; I only want you
And not some picture on a shelf, oh no
'Cause that won't carry me through
How does asphyxiated ever find the breath to make it through?
'Cause I don't want nobody else
I don't want nobody else
Only you, only you
Lyrics submitted by stevea2323
Only You Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Keith Frank Hannon
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Jeff (the singer) wrote this song after he had to have his dog put to sleep. He is a huge animal lover and always takes it very hard when an animal he is close to dies. Another Tesla song, "What You Gve", is about a another dog of Jeff's that died.
i also believe the song Miles Away, was about the same dog