"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.
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
Listen baby
Every night and day
I dream of another way
to tell you something good
I don't think that I'm understood
You walk away and I frown
With my head hung far down
You tell me what is wrong
You just wanna be loved all night long baby
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
You told me a thousand times
That you would be mine, all mine
I do everything for you
But in your smile, I still can't find
And now you tell me this
This is something that I can miss
And all you wanna do is to love me for me
And I'll love you for you
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
Now that I know I'm gonna make love to you
So lady open up your heart
And let me in where I belong
If loving you is all that I have to do
Then it won't be wrong baby
Cause we belong together baby
Together we will be as one
Just me and you, you you you
Will you love me
I will love you
Will you please me
I will please you
Girl, don't leave me
I won't leave you
Let's make it easy
I'll make it easy
Will you love me
I will love you
Will you please me
I will please you, you, you
Girl, don't leave me
I won't leave you
Let's make it easy
They can take my possessions
No, no, no, no, They can never take your love away from me
Oh, see now listen, with every breath I breath
And every beat in my heart
I know that no one, I know that no one
Can tear us apart
'Cause I love you baby
I love you too
And I need you baby
I need you to baby
Stay with me more than just a day
And you know, you know, you know
I love you
Oh yes
Oh you make me feel so good baby
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
Listen baby
Every night and day
I dream of another way
to tell you something good
I don't think that I'm understood
You walk away and I frown
With my head hung far down
You tell me what is wrong
You just wanna be loved all night long baby
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
You told me a thousand times
That you would be mine, all mine
I do everything for you
But in your smile, I still can't find
And now you tell me this
This is something that I can miss
And all you wanna do is to love me for me
And I'll love you for you
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
If loving you is all that I have to do
I don't want to do anything else
Now that I know I'm gonna make love to you
So lady open up your heart
And let me in where I belong
If loving you is all that I have to do
Then it won't be wrong baby
Cause we belong together baby
Together we will be as one
Just me and you, you you you
Will you love me
I will love you
Will you please me
I will please you
Girl, don't leave me
I won't leave you
Let's make it easy
I'll make it easy
Will you love me
I will love you
Will you please me
I will please you, you, you
Girl, don't leave me
I won't leave you
Let's make it easy
They can take my possessions
No, no, no, no, They can never take your love away from me
Oh, see now listen, with every breath I breath
And every beat in my heart
I know that no one, I know that no one
Can tear us apart
'Cause I love you baby
I love you too
And I need you baby
I need you to baby
Stay with me more than just a day
And you know, you know, you know
I love you
Oh yes
Oh you make me feel so good baby
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I Don't Want to Do Anything Lyrics as written by Donald Degrate Darryl I Pearson
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