"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.
I'd like to tell myself
If you showed up tonight
I'd tell you to go to hell
And get on with my life
I'd just walk away
Without a fight
Without one tear falling from my eye
I'd like to think that's what I would do
Yeah I know that's what I should do
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Cuz baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
I'll try to tell myself
That I'm better off alone
I pulled all your pictures down
I took your number off my phone
I know that it's wrong and the pieces don't fit
Loving you baby will never make sense
And I know that I'm crazy for letting you make me cry
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Cuz baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
Oh you're gonna hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
It still don't stop me
If you showed up tonight
I'd tell you to go to hell
And get on with my life
I'd just walk away
Without a fight
Without one tear falling from my eye
I'd like to think that's what I would do
Yeah I know that's what I should do
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Cuz baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
I'll try to tell myself
That I'm better off alone
I pulled all your pictures down
I took your number off my phone
I know that it's wrong and the pieces don't fit
Loving you baby will never make sense
And I know that I'm crazy for letting you make me cry
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Cuz baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
But it still don't stop me
Yeah, it still don't change the truth
Baby you got me
And I can't let go of you
I know if I let you back in
It's the same damn thing all over again
You'll just hurt me, you'll just hurt me
Oh you're gonna hurt me, you'll just hurt me
But it still don't stop me
It still don't stop me
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Still Don't Stop Me Lyrics as written by Hillary Lindsey Brett James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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