"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.
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I don't miss you
Just who you used to be
And you don't ring true
So please stop calling me
Your I love you's are ten a penny
You're dropping clues like you've got any
You've got to choose, there's been so many
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth
Could say that he don't want her
This look of love
Says I'm leaving
You're frozen now
I've done the freezing
I'm walking out
Madonna's calling me
She's got to be
Obscene to be believed
That's her routine
Not what she means to me
I found myself by circumstance
Across a room where people dance
And quite by chance
She danced right next me
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I want to tell you a secret
We're having drinks
With Kate and Stella
Gwyneth's here
She's brought her fella
But all I wanna do
Is take Madonna home
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I don't miss you
Just who you used to be
And you don't ring true
So please stop calling me
Your I love you's are ten a penny
You're dropping clues like you've got any
You've got to choose, there's been so many
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth
Could say that he don't want her
This look of love
Says I'm leaving
You're frozen now
I've done the freezing
I'm walking out
Madonna's calling me
She's got to be
Obscene to be believed
That's her routine
Not what she means to me
I found myself by circumstance
Across a room where people dance
And quite by chance
She danced right next me
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
Oh, Madonna, Madonna
I want to tell you a secret
We're having drinks
With Kate and Stella
Gwyneth's here
She's brought her fella
But all I wanna do
Is take Madonna home
I love you, baby
But face it, she's Madonna
No man on earth would say
That he don't want her
It's me not you
I've got to move on
You're younger too
But she's got her groove on
I'm sorry, love
Madonna's calling me
Lyrics submitted by lauren_6_6_6
She's Madonna Lyrics as written by Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I think that we can all agree on the fact that this is about Ritchie and Madonna. But I couldn't help it, so I kind of made my own interpretation of the song (which is actually quite similar to the actual meaning of the song). I think that it is generally about someone who is singing to his ex. He is saying that he loves (or loved) her, but there is another girl... and she will awlays be special, she will awlays be the one, he will awlays choose her, no matter what happens she will awlays come first. This is my interpretation, but it may be very subjective, because of my personal story and stuff.