"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.
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
I'm feeling so afraid, a love I have betrayed
Alone I cried and thought about the big mistake I've made
I wish I could explain, I'm the only one to blame
I've hurt enough of both of us and time will ease the pain
And how I regret that day and now that you've gone away
I'd give anything to bring you back home to me
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
I've learned my lesson well my life's an empty shell
Without you, without you there's no story left to tell
I believe, I believe you and me can find the love we had
And you'd see that we can make it better
'Cause together we were once so strong but now you've gone
And how I regret that day and now that you've gone away
I'd give anything to bring you back home to me
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
If I had the chance
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
I'm feeling so afraid, a love I have betrayed
Alone I cried and thought about the big mistake I've made
I wish I could explain, I'm the only one to blame
I've hurt enough of both of us and time will ease the pain
And how I regret that day and now that you've gone away
I'd give anything to bring you back home to me
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
I've learned my lesson well my life's an empty shell
Without you, without you there's no story left to tell
I believe, I believe you and me can find the love we had
And you'd see that we can make it better
'Cause together we were once so strong but now you've gone
And how I regret that day and now that you've gone away
I'd give anything to bring you back home to me
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
If I had the chance to make love to you again
I'd hold you in my arms and I'd never let it end
If I had the chance just to be with you once more
I'd give the kind of love that you'd never had before
If I had the chance
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If I Had the Chance Lyrics as written by Mike Lorrello Andrew Tripoli
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