"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 happened in the middle of the night,
When I thought I had control.
Didn't want to be the one to fight,
Didn't want to lose my soul.
I was up for something more.
Never thought I'd get it started.
Paralyzed, polarized, hung on every word.
I'm in love with the child inside.
I don't have a right to follow you
Or have a license to get closer.
A love that won't be denied.
For you are something like I've never seen.
I'm a man whose heart is crying.
Just another one of my obsessions.
You don't want to be a special toy.
I never be the one to hurt you.
Like every other girl and boy.
Just another little indiscretion.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh oh
Want to make your mountains high.
Want to take your valley low.
There's a moral to my story.
Let me in and close the door
Until the morning light.
What I'd give to live inside you.
Make me wait,
We separate but only to return.
Whisper and I'll be there.
I don't want you to beg me to stop.
I just want to drown in your desire.
Love is for those who dare.
All the cream is rising to the top.
And it's the love you save from dying.
Ah
Just another one of my obsessions.
Something I could never find.
It's the kind of love that makes your heart
Feel obsessed with mine.
Any battle for the one possession.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh
Just another one of my obsessions.
You don't want to be a special toy.
I never be the one to hurt you.
Like every other girl and boy.
Just another little indiscretion.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh
Just another one of my obsessions
When I thought I had control.
Didn't want to be the one to fight,
Didn't want to lose my soul.
I was up for something more.
Never thought I'd get it started.
Paralyzed, polarized, hung on every word.
I'm in love with the child inside.
I don't have a right to follow you
Or have a license to get closer.
A love that won't be denied.
For you are something like I've never seen.
I'm a man whose heart is crying.
Just another one of my obsessions.
You don't want to be a special toy.
I never be the one to hurt you.
Like every other girl and boy.
Just another little indiscretion.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh oh
Want to make your mountains high.
Want to take your valley low.
There's a moral to my story.
Let me in and close the door
Until the morning light.
What I'd give to live inside you.
Make me wait,
We separate but only to return.
Whisper and I'll be there.
I don't want you to beg me to stop.
I just want to drown in your desire.
Love is for those who dare.
All the cream is rising to the top.
And it's the love you save from dying.
Ah
Just another one of my obsessions.
Something I could never find.
It's the kind of love that makes your heart
Feel obsessed with mine.
Any battle for the one possession.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh
Just another one of my obsessions.
You don't want to be a special toy.
I never be the one to hurt you.
Like every other girl and boy.
Just another little indiscretion.
Another game that you want to try.
You can never be unfaithful
If you gotta love somebody.
Oh
Just another one of my obsessions
Lyrics submitted by webmasterdee
Obsessions Lyrics as written by Robin Hugh Gibb Maurice Ernest Gibb
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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