"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 sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
Lemme sing you a lullaby
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay with me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Lemme sing you a lullaby
This a lullaby
This a lullaby
Keep you by my side
Keep you by my side
You my ride or die
You my ride or die
You my ride
Sit by the ocean
My thoughts jus be fadin' away
Hundred bands ain't changing my stance or my ways
Stay down for my ones that's what I say
You can't relate
My time ticking up
I am starting to fade away
Just come here let me lay
You are my happy place
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
Lemme sing you a lullaby
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay with me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Lemme sing you a lullaby
Thinkin bout what we've been through
Never thought I gotta fight without you
I keep on losing, lost you
I'll find my way back to you
31 Till I die
Thinkin' bout my life
I wanna see you smile
I wanna see you laugh
Now make me proud
Don't you forget that
Demons been fiddling fuckin' with all my life
Every smile I fake there's a story behind
Chapter by chapter I'm losing my mind
If I gave you my pen can you write it tonight
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay w me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Hey shawty
Why you leave me
Its painin'
Cause you love me
Please
Come right back
I can sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
Lemme sing you a lullaby
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay with me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Lemme sing you a lullaby
This a lullaby
This a lullaby
Keep you by my side
Keep you by my side
You my ride or die
You my ride or die
You my ride
Sit by the ocean
My thoughts jus be fadin' away
Hundred bands ain't changing my stance or my ways
Stay down for my ones that's what I say
You can't relate
My time ticking up
I am starting to fade away
Just come here let me lay
You are my happy place
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
Lemme sing you a lullaby
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay with me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Lemme sing you a lullaby
Thinkin bout what we've been through
Never thought I gotta fight without you
I keep on losing, lost you
I'll find my way back to you
31 Till I die
Thinkin' bout my life
I wanna see you smile
I wanna see you laugh
Now make me proud
Don't you forget that
Demons been fiddling fuckin' with all my life
Every smile I fake there's a story behind
Chapter by chapter I'm losing my mind
If I gave you my pen can you write it tonight
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Let me hold you be by your side
We can make it thru these stormy nights
I wanna sing you a lullaby
Stay w me you know I will ride
Imma love you till the day I die
Hey shawty
Why you leave me
Its painin'
Cause you love me
Please
Come right back
I can sing you a lullaby
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Lullaby Lyrics as written by Veera Vijayakumar
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