"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.
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
I smiled enough
I flirted enough
I posed enough
Got freaky enough
Took pictures enough
Conversated enough
I sipped enough
I got enough
I see a cute boy chilling in some jeans and Tims
I think I like him and I just might leave this club with him
And this swagger tight I'm feeling two's on me
Make me wanna, wanna, wanna got with him
VIP like "Hey"
Dissing with my girls like "Hey"
Then I call him off to meet me
I couldn't resist, so sexy
DJ get on the mic
And make them... from the front to the rear
Ya'll ain't gotta go home
But you gotta get the hell up outta here
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
I drank enough
I danced enough
I partied enough
I sweated enough
I stuttered enough
I flossed enough
I snapped enough
Two step enough
Now I want this awesome woman up in this club
And I like her and I wanna leave this club with her
Ever since the mama broke it down to the floor
I say she ready she ready she ready to go, to go
Then I got behind her like "hey"
She pushed it on me like "hey"
And she ain't scared to get dirty
Even though she's so pretty purdy
DJ get on the mic
And give us head from the front to the rear
Ya'll ain't gotta go home
But you gotta get the hell up outta here
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
I smiled enough
I flirted enough
I posed enough
Got freaky enough
Took pictures enough
Conversated enough
I sipped enough
I got enough
I see a cute boy chilling in some jeans and Tims
I think I like him and I just might leave this club with him
And this swagger tight I'm feeling two's on me
Make me wanna, wanna, wanna got with him
VIP like "Hey"
Dissing with my girls like "Hey"
Then I call him off to meet me
I couldn't resist, so sexy
DJ get on the mic
And make them... from the front to the rear
Ya'll ain't gotta go home
But you gotta get the hell up outta here
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
I drank enough
I danced enough
I partied enough
I sweated enough
I stuttered enough
I flossed enough
I snapped enough
Two step enough
Now I want this awesome woman up in this club
And I like her and I wanna leave this club with her
Ever since the mama broke it down to the floor
I say she ready she ready she ready to go, to go
Then I got behind her like "hey"
She pushed it on me like "hey"
And she ain't scared to get dirty
Even though she's so pretty purdy
DJ get on the mic
And give us head from the front to the rear
Ya'll ain't gotta go home
But you gotta get the hell up outta here
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Baby won't you take me out of this club
I wanna be with you
Baby let me take you out of this club
I make your dreams come true
Lyrics submitted by hectopascal
Out of This Club Lyrics as written by Robert S. Kelly Jamal F. Jones
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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