"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.
There I go, there I go, there I go, there I go
Pretty baby you are the soul that snaps my control
It's a funny thing but every time I'm near you
I never can behave
You give me a smile and I'm wrapped up in your magic
Music all around me, crazy music, music that keeps calling me so
Baby close to you, turns me your slave
Come on
Come and do with me any little thing that you want to
(Anything that you want to do)
Anything, baby just met me get next to you
Am I insane or do I really see Heaven in your eyes
Bright as stars that shine up above you
In the clear blue skies, how I worry 'bout you
Just can't live my life without you, baby come here
Don't have no fear, oh, is there wonder why?
I'm really feeling in the mood for love
So tell me why, stop to think about this weather, my dear
This little dream might fade away
There I go talking out of my head again
So baby won't you come and put our two hearts together?
That would make me strong and brave
Oh, when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
If there's a cloud up above us
Go on and let in rain
I'm sure our love together would endure a hurricane
Oh my baby
Won't you please let me love you
And get a release from this awful misery?
What is all this talk about loving me, my sweet?
I am not afraid, not anymore, not like before
Don't you understand me? Oh baby please
Pull yourself together, got to do it very soon
My heart's on fire, come on and take me
I'll be what you make me, my darling
Oh, pretty baby, you make me feel so good
Let me take you by the hand
Come let us visit out there
In that new promised land
Maybe there we can find
A good place to keep a lovin' state of mind
I'm so crazy mama
Never knew what love was all about
James Moody would you come out here?
You can blow now if you want to, we're through
Pretty baby you are the soul that snaps my control
It's a funny thing but every time I'm near you
I never can behave
You give me a smile and I'm wrapped up in your magic
Music all around me, crazy music, music that keeps calling me so
Baby close to you, turns me your slave
Come on
Come and do with me any little thing that you want to
(Anything that you want to do)
Anything, baby just met me get next to you
Am I insane or do I really see Heaven in your eyes
Bright as stars that shine up above you
In the clear blue skies, how I worry 'bout you
Just can't live my life without you, baby come here
Don't have no fear, oh, is there wonder why?
I'm really feeling in the mood for love
So tell me why, stop to think about this weather, my dear
This little dream might fade away
There I go talking out of my head again
So baby won't you come and put our two hearts together?
That would make me strong and brave
Oh, when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
If there's a cloud up above us
Go on and let in rain
I'm sure our love together would endure a hurricane
Oh my baby
Won't you please let me love you
And get a release from this awful misery?
What is all this talk about loving me, my sweet?
I am not afraid, not anymore, not like before
Don't you understand me? Oh baby please
Pull yourself together, got to do it very soon
My heart's on fire, come on and take me
I'll be what you make me, my darling
Oh, pretty baby, you make me feel so good
Let me take you by the hand
Come let us visit out there
In that new promised land
Maybe there we can find
A good place to keep a lovin' state of mind
I'm so crazy mama
Never knew what love was all about
James Moody would you come out here?
You can blow now if you want to, we're through
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