"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.
Yeah, hey, hey, oh yeah
I'd been having
My eyes on you for awhile
Girl, it's something about your act
And I sure do like your style
Maybe it's the way
That you carry yourself
Maybe it's the way
That you ride around
You move with the feeling
And you sure know how
Girl, I'm out to get your love
And I'm too hot to stop now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I don't mind if I'm considered uncool
'Cause I believe to each his own
I don't play that rule
When you find the special one
That really drives you wild
You owe it to yourself to try
'Cause soon they might be gone
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Girl, I wanna get it somehow
'Cause I'm too hot to stop now
Yeah, hey, hey, yeah
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Yeah, hey, hey, yeah
I'd been having
My eyes on you for awhile
Girl, it's something about your act
And I sure do like your style
Maybe it's the way
That you carry yourself
Maybe it's the way
That you ride around
You move with the feeling
And you sure know how
Girl, I'm out to get your love
And I'm too hot to stop now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I don't mind if I'm considered uncool
'Cause I believe to each his own
I don't play that rule
When you find the special one
That really drives you wild
You owe it to yourself to try
'Cause soon they might be gone
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Girl, I wanna get it somehow
'Cause I'm too hot to stop now
Yeah, hey, hey, yeah
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Getting next to you is what I want to do
Yeah, hey, hey, yeah
Lyrics submitted by LopezTheHeavy246
Too Hot to Stop Lyrics as written by Fred Thompson Charles Leonard Allen
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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