"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.
It cuts both ways
Our love is like a knife that cuts both ways
It's driven deep into my heart each time
That I realize
How it cuts both ways
Can't be together, cannot live apart
We're heading straight into a broken heart
But I can't stop
'Cause I feel too much to let you go
I'm hurting you and it's hard I know
To stay and fight for what we've got
Knowing it'll never be good enough
'Cause you and I are dangerous
We want too much and life ain't that way
Don't ask for more, you'd be a fool
Haven't we already broken every rule?
It cuts both ways
We're in too deep for sorry alibis
Can't have regrets or even question why
We can't say goodbye
Because it cuts both ways
No more illusions of the love we make
No sacrifice would ever be too great
If you would juststay
'Cause I feel too much to let you go
I'm hurting you and it's hard I know
To stay and fight for what we've got
Knowing it'll never be good enough
'Cause you and I are dangerous
We want too much and life ain't that way
Don't ask for more, don't be a fool
Haven't we already broken every rule?
Cuts both ways
Our love is like a knife that cuts both ways
It's driven deep into my heart each time
I see we livin' the lie
And it cuts both ways
Oh, it cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
Our love is like a knife that cuts both ways
It's driven deep into my heart each time
That I realize
How it cuts both ways
Can't be together, cannot live apart
We're heading straight into a broken heart
But I can't stop
'Cause I feel too much to let you go
I'm hurting you and it's hard I know
To stay and fight for what we've got
Knowing it'll never be good enough
'Cause you and I are dangerous
We want too much and life ain't that way
Don't ask for more, you'd be a fool
Haven't we already broken every rule?
It cuts both ways
We're in too deep for sorry alibis
Can't have regrets or even question why
We can't say goodbye
Because it cuts both ways
No more illusions of the love we make
No sacrifice would ever be too great
If you would juststay
'Cause I feel too much to let you go
I'm hurting you and it's hard I know
To stay and fight for what we've got
Knowing it'll never be good enough
'Cause you and I are dangerous
We want too much and life ain't that way
Don't ask for more, don't be a fool
Haven't we already broken every rule?
Cuts both ways
Our love is like a knife that cuts both ways
It's driven deep into my heart each time
I see we livin' the lie
And it cuts both ways
Oh, it cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
It cuts both ways
Lyrics submitted by MaggieMichelle
Cuts Both Ways Lyrics as written by Gloria Estefan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Foreign Imported Productions & Publishing
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