"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.
The biggest fool there ever was
I let you go
And now I can't survive without your touch
I need you so
But baby all you've got to do
Is tell me that you need me too
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running back to you
Oh well I'd rather die a thousand deaths
Than to lose your love
But now I'm drowning in my loneliness
I can rise above, yeah again
Well just forgive me this one last time
And tell me baby you're still mine
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running baby yeah
I hit the ground running back to you
Oh I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running back to you
Ah you know I'm coming
I'm coming back for you by now baby
So if you don't want me baby
Lock your doors cause here I come
I let you go
And now I can't survive without your touch
I need you so
But baby all you've got to do
Is tell me that you need me too
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running back to you
Oh well I'd rather die a thousand deaths
Than to lose your love
But now I'm drowning in my loneliness
I can rise above, yeah again
Well just forgive me this one last time
And tell me baby you're still mine
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running baby yeah
I hit the ground running back to you
Oh I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running
I hit the ground running back to you
Ah you know I'm coming
I'm coming back for you by now baby
So if you don't want me baby
Lock your doors cause here I come
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Hit the Ground Running Lyrics as written by Michael Gerald Lunn Jeff Silbar
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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