"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.
Taking gulps, of big blue sea, of georgia peach and texas tea. The sands of time, stuck in your shoe that make you cross, they make you blue. Whatever happened to you? - You were born in the 70s [2x]
The Ins & Outs, cold and hard, lost in space and parking lots. For 44s, 454s, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x] -- Ticking goes, the big blue sea, a georgia peach and texas tea. The sands of time, stuck in your shoe that make you cross, they make you blue. Whatever happened to you? - You were born in the 70s [2x]
The year tonight, cold and hard, lost in space and parking lots. For forty fours, for fifty fives, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x]
There are many television references; Lost in Space, Beverly hillbillies and Days of our lives (sands of time) which remind me of being a latch-key kid in the 1970s, when television was my sitter. \"454s\" refers to the 1970s muscle cars' engines. I love this song...it's an under-appreciated classic. -- Taking gulps, of big blue sea, a georgia peach and texas tea. The sands of time, stuck in your shoe that make you cross, they make you blue. Whatever happened to you? - You were born in the 70s [2x]
The ins & outs, cold at hearts, lost in space and parking lots. For forty fours, 454s, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x]
The Ins & Outs, cold and hard, lost in space and parking lots. For 44s, 454s, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x] -- Ticking goes, the big blue sea, a georgia peach and texas tea. The sands of time, stuck in your shoe that make you cross, they make you blue. Whatever happened to you? - You were born in the 70s [2x]
The year tonight, cold and hard, lost in space and parking lots. For forty fours, for fifty fives, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x]
There are many television references; Lost in Space, Beverly hillbillies and Days of our lives (sands of time) which remind me of being a latch-key kid in the 1970s, when television was my sitter. \"454s\" refers to the 1970s muscle cars' engines. I love this song...it's an under-appreciated classic. -- Taking gulps, of big blue sea, a georgia peach and texas tea. The sands of time, stuck in your shoe that make you cross, they make you blue. Whatever happened to you? - You were born in the 70s [2x]
The ins & outs, cold at hearts, lost in space and parking lots. For forty fours, 454s, they get me off, they get me high. So whatever happened to me? - I was born in the 70s, and you were born, you were born in the 70s - and we were born, we were born in the 70s [2x]
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Born in the '70s Lyrics as written by Eric D. Johnson
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