"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.
Slick black Cadillac
Ooo, just a big black set of wheels
Is what it takes to get me off
I'm gonna drive all night
Spin my wheels all night
It feels alright, oh yeah, it feels alright
I don't need no drivers license
I'm too reckless to survive
It's like a carburetor instigator
Feels alright, yes, feels alright
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Ooo, give it up
Now I got a fully equipped rock 'n' roll machine
At speeds that take me high, high, high
At dead man's curve
I only hear one word drive, drive, drive
Drive, drive, drive
My machine is making headlines
It gives me love and everything
It's like an institution of revolution
Feels alright, oh yeah, feels alright
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Pull over, woo
I got the coppers on my trail
Just for me an A.P.B.
The sirens spinnin', me who's winnin'
They're after me, they're after me
Before I know just what happened
I disappeared to their surprise
I got a Cadillac monkey on my back
And I don't mind, no, no, I don't mind
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hub caps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold h-hub caps
Slick black Cadillac
I lay it down, spin wide
And get laid in back, yeah
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It makes me feel like a king, alright
Ooo, just a big black set of wheels
Is what it takes to get me off
I'm gonna drive all night
Spin my wheels all night
It feels alright, oh yeah, it feels alright
I don't need no drivers license
I'm too reckless to survive
It's like a carburetor instigator
Feels alright, yes, feels alright
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Ooo, give it up
Now I got a fully equipped rock 'n' roll machine
At speeds that take me high, high, high
At dead man's curve
I only hear one word drive, drive, drive
Drive, drive, drive
My machine is making headlines
It gives me love and everything
It's like an institution of revolution
Feels alright, oh yeah, feels alright
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Pull over, woo
I got the coppers on my trail
Just for me an A.P.B.
The sirens spinnin', me who's winnin'
They're after me, they're after me
Before I know just what happened
I disappeared to their surprise
I got a Cadillac monkey on my back
And I don't mind, no, no, I don't mind
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold hub caps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that's a slick black Cadillac
Slick black Cadillac
It's got solid gold h-hub caps
Slick black Cadillac
I lay it down, spin wide
And get laid in back, yeah
Drivin' in a slick black Cadillac
It makes me feel like a king, alright
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Slick Black Cadillac Lyrics as written by Kevin Du Brow
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