"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.
I love to see you free and dancing
You are my angel and my plaything
Your many ways have set my heart ablaze
It's you who puts my soul in ecstasy
You are my angel and my plaything
Your motion I find so entrancing
Shall I stand next to your fire?
Smoke rings raise higher and higher
You are my angel and my plaything
If I'm your rose you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose you are my sun and rain
In the heat of the night in the light of the day as is given can also be taken taken away
In the heat of the night in the light of the day I remove anything that can stand in our way
I'll be your rose that sets your heart ablaze
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
You are my angel and my plaything
Your many ways have set my heart ablaze
It's you who puts my soul in ecstasy
You are my angel and my plaything
Your motion I find so entrancing
Shall I stand next to your fire?
Smoke rings raise higher and higher
You are my angel and my plaything
If I'm your rose you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose you are my sun and rain
In the heat of the night in the light of the day as is given can also be taken taken away
In the heat of the night in the light of the day I remove anything that can stand in our way
I'll be your rose that sets your heart ablaze
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
And the northern lights will shine again and again
If I'm your rose, you are my sun and rain
Lyrics submitted by lionelhutz
Northern Lights Lyrics as written by David Coloquhoun Ian George Brown
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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