"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.
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Yeah (yeah) what's the matter with your hair?
Oh, yeah, yeah, (yeah) what's the matter with your mind
And your sign and a, oh, yeah
Mmm, how I gonna get it, baby, gonna get my lovin'?
Talk to me, tell me how I gonna get it
I'm ready for you, baby, ready for your lovin'
Don't make me wait 'cause I really need to get it
Yeah, (yeah) whip it baby
'Cause you're fine and your mine
And you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Oh, yeah
Come and get your love
Yeah, (yeah) what's the matter with ya?
Feel right, don't you feel right , baby?
Yeah, (yeah) whoa, get it from the main vine, alright
Mmm, how I gonna get it, baby, gonna get my lovin'?
Talk to me, tell me how I gonna get it
I'm ready for you, baby, ready for your lovin'.
Don't make me wait 'cause I really need to get it
Yeah, (yeah) it's your business
If you want some, take some, get it together, baby
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Oh, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Mmm, what'cha waitin' for 'cause I'm ready for your lovin'
Come and take it
Come and get it if you want it
What's the matter?
What's the problem?
Get together and we're easy gonna solve it
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Yeah (yeah) what's the matter with your hair?
Oh, yeah, yeah, (yeah) what's the matter with your mind
And your sign and a, oh, yeah
Mmm, how I gonna get it, baby, gonna get my lovin'?
Talk to me, tell me how I gonna get it
I'm ready for you, baby, ready for your lovin'
Don't make me wait 'cause I really need to get it
Yeah, (yeah) whip it baby
'Cause you're fine and your mine
And you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Oh, yeah
Come and get your love
Yeah, (yeah) what's the matter with ya?
Feel right, don't you feel right , baby?
Yeah, (yeah) whoa, get it from the main vine, alright
Mmm, how I gonna get it, baby, gonna get my lovin'?
Talk to me, tell me how I gonna get it
I'm ready for you, baby, ready for your lovin'.
Don't make me wait 'cause I really need to get it
Yeah, (yeah) it's your business
If you want some, take some, get it together, baby
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Oh, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Mmm, what'cha waitin' for 'cause I'm ready for your lovin'
Come and take it
Come and get it if you want it
What's the matter?
What's the problem?
Get together and we're easy gonna solve it
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Whoa, yeah
Come and get your love
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