"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.
Saw him on a Friday outside some run down saloon
he was cryin over someone that he felt left much too soon
I said, hey boy don't you cry tonight
let me take you out on this town
he looked at me and smiled as one last tear splashed off the ground
with half a wink he asked me what are you some kind of freak
I told him no, I guess I just feel your vibe is kinda deep
the moon hung over soho
and I counted 16 stars
I pointed at the brightest one and said now that one's ours
he's a dandelion, up on his hill above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought he was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
he just might be poison
but I took him to my roof top
I said are you afraid of heights,
He said no I am not
I said hey boy don't you lie to me, tell me everything you feel
we danced around in circles,
He said I think we found something real
he's a dandelion, up on a cliff above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought he was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
Down in union square
I saw him walking all alone
I walked a little slower just so I'd remain unknown
he met someone on seventeenth that he knew her all too well
my little piece of heaven has a secret he won't tell
with half a smile he took her hand
and then they walked away
I realized I would not see my boy after today
I fell in love with a dandelion
and he's all I ever had
at first he looked so sweet
but in the end he tastes so bad
he's a dandelion, up on his cliff above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought she was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
yeah hold on
he was cryin over someone that he felt left much too soon
I said, hey boy don't you cry tonight
let me take you out on this town
he looked at me and smiled as one last tear splashed off the ground
with half a wink he asked me what are you some kind of freak
I told him no, I guess I just feel your vibe is kinda deep
the moon hung over soho
and I counted 16 stars
I pointed at the brightest one and said now that one's ours
he's a dandelion, up on his hill above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought he was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
he just might be poison
but I took him to my roof top
I said are you afraid of heights,
He said no I am not
I said hey boy don't you lie to me, tell me everything you feel
we danced around in circles,
He said I think we found something real
he's a dandelion, up on a cliff above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought he was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
Down in union square
I saw him walking all alone
I walked a little slower just so I'd remain unknown
he met someone on seventeenth that he knew her all too well
my little piece of heaven has a secret he won't tell
with half a smile he took her hand
and then they walked away
I realized I would not see my boy after today
I fell in love with a dandelion
and he's all I ever had
at first he looked so sweet
but in the end he tastes so bad
he's a dandelion, up on his cliff above the sea
he's not exactly everything I thought that he might be
he's a dandelion
he looks like everything I need
I thought she was a flower
but I found out he's a weed
Then I hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on hold on
yeah hold on
Lyrics submitted by CamillaVanilla
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i guess im the only one whose gonna be the first comment, eh. i love this song. and unlike Paris, Nicole has a better singing voice and more talent than that ho Paris will ever have.