"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.
Uh, can't wait to get home
Baby, dial your number
Can you pick up the phone?
'Cause I wanna holla
Daydreaming about you all day in school, can't concentrate
Wanna have your voice in my ear
'Til mama comes and says it's too late
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
'Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
I love our secret meetings
On the fifth floor stair case
I'm gonna give you this letter
Of all the things I can't say
Want you to be my first, my last, my ending and beginning, yeah
I write your name in my book
Your last name, my first
I'm your Mrs.
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me (uh-ah)
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance (uh-ah)
My first teenage love affair
Hey boy (what's up?)
You know I really like being with you?
Just hanging out is fun
So, so maybe we can go to first base
Because I feel you (yeah)
Second base (yeah)
Want you to feel me too, boy
Third base
Better pump the breaks
Ooh baby, slow down
I gotta go home now
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
'Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
My baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me (I'm gonna)
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
Baby, dial your number
Can you pick up the phone?
'Cause I wanna holla
Daydreaming about you all day in school, can't concentrate
Wanna have your voice in my ear
'Til mama comes and says it's too late
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
'Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
I love our secret meetings
On the fifth floor stair case
I'm gonna give you this letter
Of all the things I can't say
Want you to be my first, my last, my ending and beginning, yeah
I write your name in my book
Your last name, my first
I'm your Mrs.
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me (uh-ah)
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance (uh-ah)
My first teenage love affair
Hey boy (what's up?)
You know I really like being with you?
Just hanging out is fun
So, so maybe we can go to first base
Because I feel you (yeah)
Second base (yeah)
Want you to feel me too, boy
Third base
Better pump the breaks
Ooh baby, slow down
I gotta go home now
'Cause the lights are on outside (outside)
Wish there was somewhere to hide (to hide)
'Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
'Cause you are my baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
My baby, baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me (I'm gonna)
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair
Lyrics submitted by grasshopper255
Teenage Love Affair Lyrics as written by Jo Bridges Carl Mitchell Hampton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i really luv thus song...
think every1 can relate, even if ur not a teenager. Even as an adult I can relate, its kinda how it feels when u like someone and its a really innocent, playful relationship in the beginning....
Love the line ' Want you to be my first, my last, my ending and beginning'
Just when u really like someone, and you cant stop thinking about them and nothing will hold u backfrom seeing them. so sweet,