"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.
Im gonna blow right past ya
Like I dont even know ya
Cuz your bringing me down down down down
Take a picture it might last longer
I wont be hanging around round round
Walk threw the clubs party thats what you wanted
I light up night night night
I get this thing started if your laying broken hearted
I'm doing it right right right
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Independent women with an eye for the lime life
Seeking short term relationship highlights
Likes to have fun and kiss under the moonlight
But not your average house wife
I'm an important lady
When I show up they pay me
Pass the check to the right
I dont need you to save me I know that some people hate me
Just living my life
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Sometimes I max out your credit card
Sometimes a lapdance might be in order
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
You know that I'm the one that activates ya
I'll give up something that just captivates ya
I'm unpredictable and very uncontrollable
Baby if you dont understand it, it might be time to roll
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Like I dont even know ya
Cuz your bringing me down down down down
Take a picture it might last longer
I wont be hanging around round round
Walk threw the clubs party thats what you wanted
I light up night night night
I get this thing started if your laying broken hearted
I'm doing it right right right
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Independent women with an eye for the lime life
Seeking short term relationship highlights
Likes to have fun and kiss under the moonlight
But not your average house wife
I'm an important lady
When I show up they pay me
Pass the check to the right
I dont need you to save me I know that some people hate me
Just living my life
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Sometimes I max out your credit card
Sometimes a lapdance might be in order
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
You know that I'm the one that activates ya
I'll give up something that just captivates ya
I'm unpredictable and very uncontrollable
Baby if you dont understand it, it might be time to roll
I dont care thats how I (move)
Love it or leave it thats how I (move)
And dont you mess with my (love it or leave it)
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
I said it said it said it said it
Love it or leave it
If you dont get it you dont get it
Love it or leave it
Lyrics submitted by thrwmyhrtawy.
Love It Or Leave It Lyrics as written by Laura Pergolizzi Sebastian Jacome
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.