"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.
when my baby comes home
she got roses in her hair
and the weight of the world in her hands
and her fingers they are light
over ivory so white
and it's the music sets her soul to dance
so i will play my drum so hard
i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
my baby is an angel
she's lying in my bed
and i'm watching her sleeping there
and her shoulders rise and fall
and lord the world, well it seems small
and the notes flow through her hair
and i will play my drum so hard
i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
and when this world has left me
jaded and confused
i've been burnt and i've been bruised
my love speaks softly to me
where love is holding on
to that little piece of truth
when my baby comes home
she got roses in her hair
and the weight of the world in her hands
and her fingers they are light
over ivory so white
and it's the music sets her soul to dance
it's the music sets her soul to dance
so i will play my drum so hard
tha i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
she got roses in her hair
and the weight of the world in her hands
and her fingers they are light
over ivory so white
and it's the music sets her soul to dance
so i will play my drum so hard
i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
my baby is an angel
she's lying in my bed
and i'm watching her sleeping there
and her shoulders rise and fall
and lord the world, well it seems small
and the notes flow through her hair
and i will play my drum so hard
i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
and when this world has left me
jaded and confused
i've been burnt and i've been bruised
my love speaks softly to me
where love is holding on
to that little piece of truth
when my baby comes home
she got roses in her hair
and the weight of the world in her hands
and her fingers they are light
over ivory so white
and it's the music sets her soul to dance
it's the music sets her soul to dance
so i will play my drum so hard
tha i will open up the skies
and let heaven on down to her
i'm breaking like the waves
you know i'm dragging like the days
and i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
i'm smoothing like an ocean stone
Lyrics submitted by zubear
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