"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.
いいね快晴じゃん 雲一つないよ
真っ赤な太陽 君を知りたいよゥ
あとはオレ等次第 今日は抱きしめたい
波打ち際の 熱い 決意
甲子園球児 さながらの闘志
でも打率は9厘 オレのジョンに sorry
まさに語り告継がれるストーリー
1人でアソブのは今夜で終わり?
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
僕君のことよく知らないけれど
何かトキメいてます
Yo 巧みな話術 彼女を翻弄
母性本能くすぐるトーク
これがオレの理想像
でも理想は理想 また「優しそう」で終わりそう
いやいや今夜こそは get
セイシをかけたまさに決闘!
今が旬 俺たちの青春
「しまっていこう!!」気合い十分
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
何か純愛じゃない? なんてね
そっかそりゃ無理だよな
だってそう僕君のこと
よく知らないけれど何かトキメいてます
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
何か純愛じゃないかもね
そっかそりゃそうだよな
だってそう僕きみのこと
よく知らないけれど何かトキメいてます
(アーイヤ アッアッアッアッ イヤササ)
真っ赤な太陽 君を知りたいよゥ
あとはオレ等次第 今日は抱きしめたい
波打ち際の 熱い 決意
甲子園球児 さながらの闘志
でも打率は9厘 オレのジョンに sorry
まさに語り告継がれるストーリー
1人でアソブのは今夜で終わり?
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
僕君のことよく知らないけれど
何かトキメいてます
Yo 巧みな話術 彼女を翻弄
母性本能くすぐるトーク
これがオレの理想像
でも理想は理想 また「優しそう」で終わりそう
いやいや今夜こそは get
セイシをかけたまさに決闘!
今が旬 俺たちの青春
「しまっていこう!!」気合い十分
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
何か純愛じゃない? なんてね
そっかそりゃ無理だよな
だってそう僕君のこと
よく知らないけれど何かトキメいてます
上海ハニーと 浜辺社交ダンス
見つめっぱなし たまんねぇ女神
上海ハニーと エイジアン・ランデヴー
寄せては返す 下心とモラル
何か純愛じゃないかもね
そっかそりゃそうだよな
だってそう僕きみのこと
よく知らないけれど何かトキメいてます
(アーイヤ アッアッアッアッ イヤササ)
Lyrics submitted by diruluvsyou
上海ハニー Lyrics as written by Orange Range
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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^^ I love this song, it's so... jumpy? The chorus is my favorite part. I can't believe nobody's commented on this yet o.o.
It starts straight into it... COOl... I love it when they get the cute jap chicks at the end to sound all cute (sorry I love it when cute people sound cute), and the guys say something over and over that sounds like "tsu" - that end part sounds really good... no idea what it means... but Idon't think it'll take much figuring out. Since when was R&B deep?