"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.
(Fire woman, yeah)
Shake, shake, shake, shake it, yeah
Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey
Oh, since I set my eyes on you
I tell you the truth
T-t-t-twistin' like a flame in a slow dance, baby
You're driving me crazy
Come on, little honey, come on now
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, yeah, smoke on the horizon
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh smoke stack lightning, smoke stack lightning
Well now, shake it up, you're to blame
Got me swayin' little honey
My heart's a ball of burnin' flame
Oh, yes it is
Prancing like a cat on a hot tin shack
Lord, have mercy
Come on little sister, come on and shake it
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke on the horizon, yeah
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke stack lightning, baby
I was thinking what I've been missing
I'll tell you truthfully, well
She's coming close now
Oh, I can feel her
She's getting close to me
And I never, yeah
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke on the horizon
Fire smoke, she is a a risin', risin', risin'
Fire, smokestack lightning
Aj-j-j, burnin' out
And shake it, baby
Come on and burn it
I say, send down fire to me
Say, send down fire to me
Say, send down fire to me, yeah
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
Shake, shake, shake, shake it, yeah
Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey
Oh, since I set my eyes on you
I tell you the truth
T-t-t-twistin' like a flame in a slow dance, baby
You're driving me crazy
Come on, little honey, come on now
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, yeah, smoke on the horizon
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh smoke stack lightning, smoke stack lightning
Well now, shake it up, you're to blame
Got me swayin' little honey
My heart's a ball of burnin' flame
Oh, yes it is
Prancing like a cat on a hot tin shack
Lord, have mercy
Come on little sister, come on and shake it
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke on the horizon, yeah
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke stack lightning, baby
I was thinking what I've been missing
I'll tell you truthfully, well
She's coming close now
Oh, I can feel her
She's getting close to me
And I never, yeah
Fire, smoke she is a rising
Fire, oh, smoke on the horizon
Fire smoke, she is a a risin', risin', risin'
Fire, smokestack lightning
Aj-j-j, burnin' out
And shake it, baby
Come on and burn it
I say, send down fire to me
Say, send down fire to me
Say, send down fire to me, yeah
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
Fire woman, you're to blame
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what a great tune!
pretty sure this party jam is a STRIPPER SONG.
this was before they started doing acrobatics in adult clubs. the lazy, curvy, dance of a 80's lady on a pole "twisting like a flame in a slow dance, baby- driving me crazy, cmon little honey, shake it"
what else could that mean?
then the scat at the end... i hear: "burn it out, shake it baby, gotta have that money. stand in front of me, said, stand in fronta me yeah"
that's the only thoughts this song ever conjured- yay me!
Great song from the modern day Jim Morrison
AH YEAH!
COME ON NOW!