"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.
Fairy tales can come true,
It can happen to you,
If you're young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
For it's hard you will find
To be narrow of mind,
If you're young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
You can go to extremes,
With impossible schemes,
You can laugh when your dreams
Fall apart at the seams . . .
And life gets more exciting,
With each passing day,
An' love is either in your heart,
Or, on the way!
Don't you know that it's worth,
Every treasure on earth,
To be young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
For as rich as you are,
It's much better by far,
To be young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
And if you should survive,
To a hundred an' five,
Look at all you'll derive
Outta bein' alive!
And here is the best part,
You have a head start . . .
If you are among,
The very young at heart!
(Don't you know that it's worth,
Every treasure on earth,
To be young at heart!
For as rich as you are,
It's much better by far,
To be young at heart!)
And if you should survive,
To a hundred an' five,
Look at all you'll derive
Outta bein' alive!
And here is the best part,
You have a head start...
If you are among,
The very young...
At heart!
It can happen to you,
If you're young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
For it's hard you will find
To be narrow of mind,
If you're young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
You can go to extremes,
With impossible schemes,
You can laugh when your dreams
Fall apart at the seams . . .
And life gets more exciting,
With each passing day,
An' love is either in your heart,
Or, on the way!
Don't you know that it's worth,
Every treasure on earth,
To be young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
For as rich as you are,
It's much better by far,
To be young at heart!
(Young at heart!)
And if you should survive,
To a hundred an' five,
Look at all you'll derive
Outta bein' alive!
And here is the best part,
You have a head start . . .
If you are among,
The very young at heart!
(Don't you know that it's worth,
Every treasure on earth,
To be young at heart!
For as rich as you are,
It's much better by far,
To be young at heart!)
And if you should survive,
To a hundred an' five,
Look at all you'll derive
Outta bein' alive!
And here is the best part,
You have a head start...
If you are among,
The very young...
At heart!
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Young at Heart Lyrics as written by Johnny Richards Carolyn Leigh
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