"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.
Hold me in your arms, may they keep me
Sing me a lullaby, 'cause I'm sleepy
I'm scared you don't need me anymore
Bring me to the light of the morning
Take me through this night till the dawning
Oh, I see a warning in yours eyes
We don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
Now you're not here
Hold me just tonight, sleep will tend me
Save me from lonely hours, there's so many
I won't get any sleep tonight
And don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
Now you're not here anymore, not anymore
Don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
When you left me lonely
And I won't drink no aged wine, no, no
Now you're not here anymore, not anymore
Not anymore, not anymore
Sing me a lullaby, 'cause I'm sleepy
I'm scared you don't need me anymore
Bring me to the light of the morning
Take me through this night till the dawning
Oh, I see a warning in yours eyes
We don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
Now you're not here
Hold me just tonight, sleep will tend me
Save me from lonely hours, there's so many
I won't get any sleep tonight
And don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
Now you're not here anymore, not anymore
Don't need no valentines, no, no
Don't need no roses
'Cause it just take me back in time, no, no
When you left me lonely
And I won't drink no aged wine, no, no
Now you're not here anymore, not anymore
Not anymore, not anymore
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Song makes me cry :-( So sad and melancholic
Richard said it's about how, when you've lost a partner, you try to deal with it by making yourself hard & cold. & this song is about the moment when you admit to yourself that you're not.
this song is really something but it's basically a carbon copy of a spanish love song who's title escapes me