"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.
Out on the wire, I hear you callin'
So clear, yet a million miles away.
I start to feel it now, slips away somehow.
Out on the roadside I'm stopped by a daydream
Caught a glimpse from the corner of my eye
Like a ghost I see you there silently.
Could this be love touchin' me along the way;
Come to me shinin' down, could this be the one..
Could this be love?
I try to remember some old familiar feeling
So long ago like another place in time;
I saw you turn to me and whisper silently.
Could this be love touchin' me along the way,
Just come to me shinin' down, could this be love?
Could this be love touchin' me along the way
Just come to me shinin' down, could this be love;
Could this be the one...could this be love?
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
So clear, yet a million miles away.
I start to feel it now, slips away somehow.
Out on the roadside I'm stopped by a daydream
Caught a glimpse from the corner of my eye
Like a ghost I see you there silently.
Could this be love touchin' me along the way;
Come to me shinin' down, could this be the one..
Could this be love?
I try to remember some old familiar feeling
So long ago like another place in time;
I saw you turn to me and whisper silently.
Could this be love touchin' me along the way,
Just come to me shinin' down, could this be love?
Could this be love touchin' me along the way
Just come to me shinin' down, could this be love;
Could this be the one...could this be love?
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
The returning of the wish...
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Returning Of the Wish Lyrics as written by Sammy Hagar Laurence Alan Dvoskin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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