"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.
Oh Yeah!
You make me feel so pretty
When I'm not feeling so cool today
Yeah you pull me out
When you know that I'm afraid
Something about you
It drys up every tear in my way
And when I trip myself on the sidewalk
You put my boots back on me babe
Cause your my cowboy your my everything
And you know how to get me
Sometimes I'm feeling up sometimes I'm down
You lift my feet up off the ground
Sometimes I'm moving fast sometimes I'm slow
You know where to make me go
Sometimes I am the happy girl you love
Sometimes I dont feel good enough
Sometimes sometimes oh
Your there when i need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
When I need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
I ask myself this question
About you that i can not explain
How you ride with me
When you know that I'm to blame
You've proved your love I
Dont need to hear the words that you say
But i know you say them anyway
Just to keep me feeling safe
As my worries become a yesterday
Baby you get me
Sometimes I'm feeling up sometimes I'm down
You lift my feet up off the ground
Sometimes I'm moving fast sometimes I'm slow
You know where to make me go
Sometimes I am the happy girl you love
Sometimes I dont feel good enough
Sometimes sometimes oh
Your there when i need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
When I need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
And my worries become a yesterday
Cause baby you know I'm...
You make me feel so pretty
When I'm not feeling so cool today
Yeah you pull me out
When you know that I'm afraid
Something about you
It drys up every tear in my way
And when I trip myself on the sidewalk
You put my boots back on me babe
Cause your my cowboy your my everything
And you know how to get me
Sometimes I'm feeling up sometimes I'm down
You lift my feet up off the ground
Sometimes I'm moving fast sometimes I'm slow
You know where to make me go
Sometimes I am the happy girl you love
Sometimes I dont feel good enough
Sometimes sometimes oh
Your there when i need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
When I need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
I ask myself this question
About you that i can not explain
How you ride with me
When you know that I'm to blame
You've proved your love I
Dont need to hear the words that you say
But i know you say them anyway
Just to keep me feeling safe
As my worries become a yesterday
Baby you get me
Sometimes I'm feeling up sometimes I'm down
You lift my feet up off the ground
Sometimes I'm moving fast sometimes I'm slow
You know where to make me go
Sometimes I am the happy girl you love
Sometimes I dont feel good enough
Sometimes sometimes oh
Your there when i need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
When I need you
Sometimes uh oh uh oh
And my worries become a yesterday
Cause baby you know I'm...
Lyrics submitted by sndr
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