"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.
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do won’t love me
Why don’t you come on closer please
Yeah you don’t know
I brush my hand across your knee
Just take it slow
Because I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might, like
Won’t you apologize to me to me to me
For being such a tease a tease a tease
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na naot
You love me not
I’m gonna tell you that you mean
Cause you don’t show
You interrupt another dream
So out you go
Because I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might, like
Won’t you apologize to me to me to me
For being such a tease a tease a tease
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na naot
You love me not
Na na not, na na not, na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not, na na not, na na not
Should I tell you now,
Or go oh oh oh
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Hold my hand
Put on a show
Still don’t think you understand
But I’ve got to know
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na not
You love me…
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Should I tell you now
Should I tell you now
That I’m in love with you?
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do won’t love me
Why don’t you come on closer please
Yeah you don’t know
I brush my hand across your knee
Just take it slow
Because I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might, like
Won’t you apologize to me to me to me
For being such a tease a tease a tease
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na naot
You love me not
I’m gonna tell you that you mean
Cause you don’t show
You interrupt another dream
So out you go
Because I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might, like
Won’t you apologize to me to me to me
For being such a tease a tease a tease
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na naot
You love me not
Na na not, na na not, na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not, na na not, na na not
Should I tell you now,
Or go oh oh oh
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Hold my hand
Put on a show
Still don’t think you understand
But I’ve got to know
You know I’m not gonna tell you all the things I might like
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
My best friend’s hot
My best friend’s hot
No matter what I do you love me not
Woah oh oh, woah oh oh
Na na na na na not
You love me…
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Na na not, na na not
Should I tell you now
Should I tell you now
That I’m in love with you?
Lyrics submitted by carbonated boy
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