"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.
Reach for the stars kid, I've been wondering,
Heaven's not too far kid, we've been tumbling,
Down down baby, you're so audio
But I'm a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman,
We keep in time kid, you're so into it
But if you were mine kid, we'd be intermate
These razors ain't your roses
But I'm a gentleman, (I'm such a gentleman)
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend we could be together oh
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters home oh
We'll never let go oh
We'll never let go oh
We'll never let
Were torn apart kid, tearing to the beat
Lovers to the bone kid, you said no no no
These razors ain't your roses, but I'm a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters
Sway sway baby, you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, I'm such a gentleman
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight,
You'll write back to my letters home
Cause I insist this secret liquid shared between us
Just to skip this secret through our throat
Oh oh secrets down our throat oh oh
Yeah I insist this secret liquid shared between us
Just to skip this secrets down our throat
Oh oh secrets down
And I'll never let you go (I'm such a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman)
And I'll never let you go (I'm such a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman)
Sway baby, sway baby oh
We'll love like hell
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters
Sway sway baby , you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight,
You'll write back to my letters home
Heaven's not too far kid, we've been tumbling,
Down down baby, you're so audio
But I'm a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman,
We keep in time kid, you're so into it
But if you were mine kid, we'd be intermate
These razors ain't your roses
But I'm a gentleman, (I'm such a gentleman)
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend we could be together oh
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters home oh
We'll never let go oh
We'll never let go oh
We'll never let
Were torn apart kid, tearing to the beat
Lovers to the bone kid, you said no no no
These razors ain't your roses, but I'm a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters
Sway sway baby, you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, I'm such a gentleman
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight,
You'll write back to my letters home
Cause I insist this secret liquid shared between us
Just to skip this secret through our throat
Oh oh secrets down our throat oh oh
Yeah I insist this secret liquid shared between us
Just to skip this secrets down our throat
Oh oh secrets down
And I'll never let you go (I'm such a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman)
And I'll never let you go (I'm such a gentleman, I'm such a gentleman)
Sway baby, sway baby oh
We'll love like hell
Sway sway baby you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight
You'll write back to my letters
Sway sway baby , you're so audio
Kill your boyfriend, we could be together
Sway sway baby tonight, maybe tonight,
You'll write back to my letters home
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this is just a fancy up-beat song about somebody that he shouldnt be liking so it's technically forbidden Shaun's trying to say that he'll be better than that girls current bf Cause I insist this secret liquid shared between us Just to skip this secret through our throat, oh oh Secrets down our throat, woah oh-- means that the "secret liquid" is for only him and her and he needs to keep it a secret as i said before it's forbidden.
Well i didnt really explain all of it just parts of it... :)