"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 on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Well, I've been watching you all night
Don't you wanna dance?
Don't you wanna dance?
Everybody, get on up and dance
Get on up, yeah
Yeah
Ain't you tired of sitting down?
Get on up and dance, hey, well
Come swing to the music
Ooohooo
Ooohooohooo
This ain't your funky show
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Everybody, well, stand up and shout
Ohoho, ohoho, well!
That's what you got to do, yeah
Get your body goin'
Inside and out, yeah
Just dance
Shout with the music, yeah
Ohohohoho!
You got to get down
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Well, you ain't stop the groove
'Cause it makes your body move, yeah
Good funky music
Just move that funky song
Don't stop the groove
Get the groove
Let's do a good dance
Oh, you!
I'm talking to you!
Get up and shout!
Clap your hands and dance
Say what you wanna in the house
So shout with the music, well
Some funky, funky music
Ah, yeah, stand up and funk to the groove
You got to get down
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Well, I've been watching you all night
Don't you wanna dance?
Don't you wanna dance?
Everybody, get on up and dance
Get on up, yeah
Yeah
Ain't you tired of sitting down?
Get on up and dance, hey, well
Come swing to the music
Ooohooo
Ooohooohooo
This ain't your funky show
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it
Come on and do it, do it, do it
Come on and do it
Everybody, well, stand up and shout
Ohoho, ohoho, well!
That's what you got to do, yeah
Get your body goin'
Inside and out, yeah
Just dance
Shout with the music, yeah
Ohohohoho!
You got to get down
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Well, you ain't stop the groove
'Cause it makes your body move, yeah
Good funky music
Just move that funky song
Don't stop the groove
Get the groove
Let's do a good dance
Oh, you!
I'm talking to you!
Get up and shout!
Clap your hands and dance
Say what you wanna in the house
So shout with the music, well
Some funky, funky music
Ah, yeah, stand up and funk to the groove
You got to get down
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Let's Start the Dance Lyrics as written by Hamilton Frederick Bohannon
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