"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.
Every time I think our love is drifting apart
Something always throws it back together
And every time I think I've found someone new for my heart
After one kiss my heart tells me never
Ooh, oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Every time I think your love has no more to give
You do something more to take me higher
And every time I think that for someone else I could live
I'd be living love out as a liar
Oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Boy, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
We keep thinking that our love won't last beyond tomorrow
But our hearts say we're gonna stay in love this way
Ooh, oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Say it again
Oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Boy, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Something always throws it back together
And every time I think I've found someone new for my heart
After one kiss my heart tells me never
Ooh, oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Every time I think your love has no more to give
You do something more to take me higher
And every time I think that for someone else I could live
I'd be living love out as a liar
Oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Boy, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
We keep thinking that our love won't last beyond tomorrow
But our hearts say we're gonna stay in love this way
Ooh, oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Say it again
Oh, everyone has got a weakness in life
Boy, you just happen to be mine
Oh, everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
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Weakness Lyrics as written by Stevie Wonder
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