"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.
It's been a whole year since your call
The one that started
I don't love you anymore
I thought I'd surely not survive
But here I am, I'm still alive, 365 days later
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
The weeks and months blend into one
A bleary haze, fall, winter
Now spring has begun
Bringing fresh hope to my door
I'll be the girl I was before you took back
The precious gift you gave to me
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
And after all is said and done
And written up (written in the stars above)
The radio's singing songs of love
But not for us
Not for us
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
East west, east west, 365
Here I am, I'm still alive
The one that started
I don't love you anymore
I thought I'd surely not survive
But here I am, I'm still alive, 365 days later
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
The weeks and months blend into one
A bleary haze, fall, winter
Now spring has begun
Bringing fresh hope to my door
I'll be the girl I was before you took back
The precious gift you gave to me
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
And after all is said and done
And written up (written in the stars above)
The radio's singing songs of love
But not for us
Not for us
Going strong, holding on
Trying to find a place where I belong
I've been east, I've been west
But I'm still not over you yet
I'm still not over you yet, no no
East west, east west, 365
Here I am, I'm still alive
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East West Lyrics as written by Julia Fordham
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