"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.
Just charge it to my account
I hope I haven't gone over my limit
With interest rates so swift
No need to scream and shout
No doubt if women are from Venus now
I'll get to them somehow
All I want to do is please you
Please myself by living my life too
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
All the stupid things I do have absolutely no reflection on
How I feel about you baby
How I feel about you
Oh yes I recall
Skipping on breakfast to play basketball
Then feeling two feet small
Sometimes you read like William Shakes
Your scent is sweet like Betty Crocker bakes
I'd love to have your cake and eat it to
All I want to do is please you
Please myself by living my life too
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
All the stupid things I do have absolutely no reflection on
How I feel about you baby
How I feel about you baby yeah
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
Oh how I feel about you
How I feel about you yeah
I hope I haven't gone over my limit
With interest rates so swift
No need to scream and shout
No doubt if women are from Venus now
I'll get to them somehow
All I want to do is please you
Please myself by living my life too
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
All the stupid things I do have absolutely no reflection on
How I feel about you baby
How I feel about you
Oh yes I recall
Skipping on breakfast to play basketball
Then feeling two feet small
Sometimes you read like William Shakes
Your scent is sweet like Betty Crocker bakes
I'd love to have your cake and eat it to
All I want to do is please you
Please myself by living my life too
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
All the stupid things I do have absolutely no reflection on
How I feel about you baby
How I feel about you baby yeah
And all the stupid things I do
Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you
How I feel about
Oh how I feel about you
How I feel about you yeah
Lyrics submitted by warrenaikmen
The Stupid Things Lyrics as written by Robin A. Thicke
Lyrics © Regard Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Im thinkin it has to do with him doin something stupid that upset his girl, so he's buying her things to try to make up for it. But im also guessing it was to fill up some space and it just happened to rhyme...
I like that one a lot Nini.
agree with nini too
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