"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.
White man's killin' the black man
Black mans chasing the red
War in these streets
No talkin' bout peace
The dog's off the leash, under pressure
All of this violence
And hate crime is rising
The world ain't the same as it was
AAh
But its never too late to try
To get on the same side
Get on the same side
It's cherry Blue skies
Where there's Cherry blue skies
Everything's a struggle
But freedoms worth a fight
And love is sitll the consuier at all times
Your friends and lovers
Your sisters and brothers
All love the same from the moon
But its never too late to try
To get on the same side
Get on the same side
It's cherry blue skies
Where there's cherry blue skies
It's never gonna be to late to try
A place where there's hope
A place where there's peace
It's never to late to try
For the cherry blue skies
Black mans chasing the red
War in these streets
No talkin' bout peace
The dog's off the leash, under pressure
All of this violence
And hate crime is rising
The world ain't the same as it was
AAh
But its never too late to try
To get on the same side
Get on the same side
It's cherry Blue skies
Where there's Cherry blue skies
Everything's a struggle
But freedoms worth a fight
And love is sitll the consuier at all times
Your friends and lovers
Your sisters and brothers
All love the same from the moon
But its never too late to try
To get on the same side
Get on the same side
It's cherry blue skies
Where there's cherry blue skies
It's never gonna be to late to try
A place where there's hope
A place where there's peace
It's never to late to try
For the cherry blue skies
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Cherry Blue Skies Lyrics as written by Robert Bradford Keyes James D. Gass
Lyrics © Regard Music, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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