"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.
Two atoms they collide in all their random ways
The meeting of you and I not so random some might say
She walks up close to me and she looks me in the eyes,
She said,
“Boy, what’s it gonna be, now that it’s just you and I?”
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
So I stepped up to the plate to a place I thought I’d never be
So I’m thanking you today because of you I am now me
Cold days them dark and blue when we was our only friend
For all that we’ve been through and will go through again
For that I say,
I will come and I will stand
And I will live my life beside you
I’m a proud, a proud man, but all the same I’m
I’m just a fool, I’m a fool for you
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
Two atoms they collide, you and I we make them child
What lovely creatures they are, something right from the stars
And I helped you bring them forth
I offered a safe place to land
An overflow of love, falling right into my hands
For that I say,
I will come and I will stand
And I will live my life beside you
I’m a proud, a proud man
A proud man to be walkin right next to your shoes.
You’re the one, the only one, the only one that’s just right just for me
But all the same, you know I, you know I’m, I’m just a fool
I’m a fool for you, I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you.
The meeting of you and I not so random some might say
She walks up close to me and she looks me in the eyes,
She said,
“Boy, what’s it gonna be, now that it’s just you and I?”
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
So I stepped up to the plate to a place I thought I’d never be
So I’m thanking you today because of you I am now me
Cold days them dark and blue when we was our only friend
For all that we’ve been through and will go through again
For that I say,
I will come and I will stand
And I will live my life beside you
I’m a proud, a proud man, but all the same I’m
I’m just a fool, I’m a fool for you
I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you
Two atoms they collide, you and I we make them child
What lovely creatures they are, something right from the stars
And I helped you bring them forth
I offered a safe place to land
An overflow of love, falling right into my hands
For that I say,
I will come and I will stand
And I will live my life beside you
I’m a proud, a proud man
A proud man to be walkin right next to your shoes.
You’re the one, the only one, the only one that’s just right just for me
But all the same, you know I, you know I’m, I’m just a fool
I’m a fool for you, I’m a fool, I’m a fool for you.
Lyrics submitted by mattisyourhero, edited by Lovegoodmusic
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"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"
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I love the JBT... saw them in Dallas a few years ago. They are so eclectic. This tune is so gentle and loving. It gets me every time.
This song has to be about his wife, like some of JBT's other songs...