"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.
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause if I got you, I'm gonna be alright
If I got you I'm gonna be alright
Say hello to my naked dream
Where the strong will follow and the weak will lead
Look around you it's time to leave
La, la, la, la, la, la
Close your eyes, I'll take you there
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
'Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
Say hello with the Buddha's eyes,
Say you're scared I can sympathize
That will fade once we reach the sky,
La, la, la, la, la, la
Close your eyes, I'll take you there
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
'Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
Goodbye to air we can barely breath,
We try, but is this really the life we thought it would be?
Life's a rocket that flies on by,
You can't slow it down or press rewind
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause if I got you, I'm gonna be alright
If I got you I'm gonna be alright
Say hello to my naked dream
Where the strong will follow and the weak will lead
Look around you it's time to leave
La, la, la, la, la, la
Close your eyes, I'll take you there
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
'Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
Say hello with the Buddha's eyes,
Say you're scared I can sympathize
That will fade once we reach the sky,
La, la, la, la, la, la
Close your eyes, I'll take you there
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
'Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
Goodbye to air we can barely breath,
We try, but is this really the life we thought it would be?
Life's a rocket that flies on by,
You can't slow it down or press rewind
I wanna find peace like Mahatma Gandhi,
Wanna drink champagne and be cool like Blondie,
Buy a backpack, let's leave the country
'Cause If I got you I'm gonna be alright
I wanna fly a kite off the wall of China
I wanna go shopping like Winona Ryder
I got two coach tickets on a jet airliner
Cause if I got you I'm gonna be alright
If I got you, I'm gonna be alright
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Gandhi Lyrics as written by Gary Scott Burr Billy Mann
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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