"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.
You are different
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, baby
And to me you're different as night and day
From all the rest
There's not a lot of things that
That can excite me, ignite me
You're all that and then so
Your lips, your smile, can I reminisce just for a while?
Your eyes, your hair, everything I love, you got it right there
Your soft tone when you speak
Your sexiness down to your feet
[Chorus]
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Do you get off on me?
Your tenderness
And gentle ways
Love it when you sigh
Make love to me
And you're the one, my wildest dream
Someone like you is all I need
But many things that you posses
Girl, your out front from all the rest
[Chorus]
First of all you're sensitive, very sensitive
And I love that in a woman
You love flowers, you're so cute, so precious to me
Very precious to me
Step, baby, step
Yeah, you're there
You're walk, your talk
Have mercy, mercy on me
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Do you get off on me?
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
I do, I do
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder, baby
And to me you're different as night and day
From all the rest
There's not a lot of things that
That can excite me, ignite me
You're all that and then so
Your lips, your smile, can I reminisce just for a while?
Your eyes, your hair, everything I love, you got it right there
Your soft tone when you speak
Your sexiness down to your feet
[Chorus]
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Do you get off on me?
Your tenderness
And gentle ways
Love it when you sigh
Make love to me
And you're the one, my wildest dream
Someone like you is all I need
But many things that you posses
Girl, your out front from all the rest
[Chorus]
First of all you're sensitive, very sensitive
And I love that in a woman
You love flowers, you're so cute, so precious to me
Very precious to me
Step, baby, step
Yeah, you're there
You're walk, your talk
Have mercy, mercy on me
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
Do you get off on me?
Baby, baby, baby
I get off on you
I do, I do
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