"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.
Sing baby sing the world is getting better
It's somethin' else since we're together
Let's have a ball, let's do it all and sing
Ain't we got it made
(Sing baby sing)
Ain't we got it made
(Sing baby sing)
Dance baby dance and let the sun shine on us
There ain't a blessed thing to stop us
Let's live it up fill up the cup and dance.
Ain't we got it made
Ain't we got it made, our love song has no end
We're not only lovers we are friends
So cry baby cry, our wedding bells are ringing
And while the happy choir is singin'
This girl and boy through tears of joy will sing
Ain't we got it made
It's somethin' else since we're together
Let's have a ball, let's do it all and sing
Ain't we got it made
(Sing baby sing)
Ain't we got it made
(Sing baby sing)
Dance baby dance and let the sun shine on us
There ain't a blessed thing to stop us
Let's live it up fill up the cup and dance.
Ain't we got it made
Ain't we got it made, our love song has no end
We're not only lovers we are friends
So cry baby cry, our wedding bells are ringing
And while the happy choir is singin'
This girl and boy through tears of joy will sing
Ain't we got it made
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Sing Baby Sing Lyrics as written by Hugo Peretti George David Weiss
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