"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.
When it come to love
I'd do most anything
?Cause if you have it in your heart
You know you're a rich man
There's just not enough
To go around the world today
And if we had a little more
You know it would be a better place
I can only go by what's happened to me
And now I realize
That when it comes to love (comes to love)
You're gonna
Cry a little
Hurt a little
Feel a little pain in your heart
Laugh a little
Care a lot
Take a look at what you got
?Cause we're only human
We make mistakes
But we're gonna live to see another day
So do what you gotta
Do what you gotta do
When it comes to love
I just wanna have it all
It's not something you can buy in any store
Someone to trust
That's what I'm looking for
I'm gonna open up my heart
And ask you to open yours
I'm not tyring to tell you
How it should be
I just wanna show you baby
That's when it come to love (comes to love)
You're gonna
Cry a little
Hurt a little
Feel a little pain in your heart
Laugh a little
Care a lot
Take a look at what you got
?Cause we're only human
We make mistakes
But we're gonna live to see another day
So do what you gotta
Do what you gotta do
I'd do most anything
?Cause if you have it in your heart
You know you're a rich man
There's just not enough
To go around the world today
And if we had a little more
You know it would be a better place
I can only go by what's happened to me
And now I realize
That when it comes to love (comes to love)
You're gonna
Cry a little
Hurt a little
Feel a little pain in your heart
Laugh a little
Care a lot
Take a look at what you got
?Cause we're only human
We make mistakes
But we're gonna live to see another day
So do what you gotta
Do what you gotta do
When it comes to love
I just wanna have it all
It's not something you can buy in any store
Someone to trust
That's what I'm looking for
I'm gonna open up my heart
And ask you to open yours
I'm not tyring to tell you
How it should be
I just wanna show you baby
That's when it come to love (comes to love)
You're gonna
Cry a little
Hurt a little
Feel a little pain in your heart
Laugh a little
Care a lot
Take a look at what you got
?Cause we're only human
We make mistakes
But we're gonna live to see another day
So do what you gotta
Do what you gotta do
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When It Comes to Love Lyrics as written by Reed Philip Vertelney Jeff Pescetto
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