"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.
Take a chance you won't regret.
Turn me on but don't you forget.
I'll only sing your favorite lines,
Enough to keep you here satisfied.
Your words are cold and my thoughts are alone...
I'm cutting to the chase and I want you to know.
Time does not always make things better.
Maybe if she saw my name upon the silver screen,
On the tv, the sterio, the magazines.
She can make a smile that screams she wants me.
And don't you dare hang up the phone (the phone).
I may be a liar, I swear your my desire.
Don't you dare hang up the phone.
You may be a diamond
Baby you know that I'm priceless.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
Your hands are hot.
What you touch gets you spired
I'm putting out the flames
In the sweat we perspire.
Weeks ago on your cell I'm screaming.
On those words that you say
When you know your alone.
I'm a secret from your past
Your just begging to let go.
And I know you won't find anyone better.
And don't you dare hang up the phone (the phone).
I may be a liar, I swear your my desire.
Don't you dare hang up the phone.
You may be a diamond
Baby you know that I'm priceless.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
Take a chance you won't regret.
Turn me on but don't you forget.
I'll only sing your favorite lines,
Enough to keep you here satisfied.
Turn me on but don't you forget.
I'll only sing your favorite lines,
Enough to keep you here satisfied.
Your words are cold and my thoughts are alone...
I'm cutting to the chase and I want you to know.
Time does not always make things better.
Maybe if she saw my name upon the silver screen,
On the tv, the sterio, the magazines.
She can make a smile that screams she wants me.
And don't you dare hang up the phone (the phone).
I may be a liar, I swear your my desire.
Don't you dare hang up the phone.
You may be a diamond
Baby you know that I'm priceless.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
Your hands are hot.
What you touch gets you spired
I'm putting out the flames
In the sweat we perspire.
Weeks ago on your cell I'm screaming.
On those words that you say
When you know your alone.
I'm a secret from your past
Your just begging to let go.
And I know you won't find anyone better.
And don't you dare hang up the phone (the phone).
I may be a liar, I swear your my desire.
Don't you dare hang up the phone.
You may be a diamond
Baby you know that I'm priceless.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
I could be your radio.
I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Turn it up! Turn it up! Turn it up! Up Listen up!
I'm bringing it back to me.
Take a chance you won't regret.
Turn me on but don't you forget.
I'll only sing your favorite lines,
Enough to keep you here satisfied.
Lyrics submitted by bandshirts
Turn It Up Lyrics as written by Femi Williams Orville Brinsley Evans
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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