"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.
In the back of my mind
There's a sweet memory
Of an old front porch swing
And daddy singing to me
I can still feel the touch of
His callused hands
In my eyes he was
The one perfect man.
The first top three men
I gave my heart to
Jesus, daddy and you.
Come Sunday morning
I knew where I'd be
Between momma and daddy
Pew number three
Where I put my life in
To them scarred hands
The day that I fell for
One more perfect man.
The men I have loved
Have been mighty few
Jesus, daddy and you.
There are three kinds of love
That everyone needs
I knew that something
Was missing for me.
Then you came along and
Completed my life
I saw Jesus and daddy and your loving eyes
I looked up when you put
That ring on my hand
And I thank my God
For one more perfect man.
Three men in my life
Who's love has been true
Jesus, daddy and you.
Three men in my life
I gave my heart to
Jesus, daddy and you.
There's a sweet memory
Of an old front porch swing
And daddy singing to me
I can still feel the touch of
His callused hands
In my eyes he was
The one perfect man.
The first top three men
I gave my heart to
Jesus, daddy and you.
Come Sunday morning
I knew where I'd be
Between momma and daddy
Pew number three
Where I put my life in
To them scarred hands
The day that I fell for
One more perfect man.
The men I have loved
Have been mighty few
Jesus, daddy and you.
There are three kinds of love
That everyone needs
I knew that something
Was missing for me.
Then you came along and
Completed my life
I saw Jesus and daddy and your loving eyes
I looked up when you put
That ring on my hand
And I thank my God
For one more perfect man.
Three men in my life
Who's love has been true
Jesus, daddy and you.
Three men in my life
I gave my heart to
Jesus, daddy and you.
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Jesus, Daddy and You Lyrics as written by Howard Dodson
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