"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!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh, ooh
Oh! can i catch your eye tonight
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
We could live forever
One line at a time
So let's sway!
Step one is your heart,
Rip it up for another
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
Tie it to sincerity and
This is the soundtrack for lovers!!
So baby c'mon
Get down (get down)
Why now (why now)
So right (so right)
And watch (and watch)
Me drown (me drown)
The mo...ments
Right
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
We're lovers with such precision
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
Nooo, social suicide this time
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
When i repeat confessions
With catastrophe in mind
And f**k it's sublime
Step one is your heart,
Rip it up for another
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
Tie it to sincerity and
This is the soundtrack for lovers!!
So baby c'mon
Get down
Why now
Soo...
Right
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
We're lovers with such precision
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye tonight
Yeah!
....Ooh, ooh
Oh! Get down
Why now (why now)
So right (so right)
(****FADES OUT****)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh, ooh
Oh! can i catch your eye tonight
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
We could live forever
One line at a time
So let's sway!
Step one is your heart,
Rip it up for another
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
Tie it to sincerity and
This is the soundtrack for lovers!!
So baby c'mon
Get down (get down)
Why now (why now)
So right (so right)
And watch (and watch)
Me drown (me drown)
The mo...ments
Right
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
We're lovers with such precision
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
Nooo, social suicide this time
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
When i repeat confessions
With catastrophe in mind
And f**k it's sublime
Step one is your heart,
Rip it up for another
(I'm so beside myself tonight, so beside myself tonight)
Tie it to sincerity and
This is the soundtrack for lovers!!
So baby c'mon
Get down
Why now
Soo...
Right
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say good
A shimmy shimmy go go
We're lovers with such precision
So say goodbye, goodbye
Your finger is on the trigger
So say goodbye tonight
Yeah!
....Ooh, ooh
Oh! Get down
Why now (why now)
So right (so right)
(****FADES OUT****)
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Well it's obviously about some sort of boy/girl weird -relationship Lol There's not much more to get from it It's a basic song.. but totally fun :D
Someone else should explain it lol