"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.
[Chorus]
Oh so sexy you got that natural
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
So amazing I'm getting faded
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
Oh so sexy you got that natural
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
So amazing I'm getting faded
Off you so intoxicating
Pretty feet with open toes
Scent of your neck is like a fresh red rose
X-ray vision passing through your clothes
But I really cant wait to see you naked though
The way your body move and you dip it slow
I try to play it cool but I gotta let you know
The way you looking I can tell you wanna go
Skip the preview and lets get to the show
My baby she kick it, she cool with all the fellas, she hood
Like taking chances but classy like Cinderella
She down like four flats, my baby girl is real,
She done weathered the storm and baby down with you still
[Chorus]
Now we at home and were all alone
With no interruptions just turn off you phone
Daddy's little girl but now that your all grown
Birthday suit is all you got on
Got the radio on and its playing your song
Touching on your body all night long
Feels so right that it cant be wrong
Sexual healing coming on strong
Them curves like a coke bottle cant be beat
Pedicure every week on them cute little feet
She a freak under the covers but she keep it discrete
She's my midnight treat baby for real that's why I remain
[Chorus]
She shaped like an hour glass
Flier than a mockingbird
Baby got that smooth skin softer than some fox fur
We go together like sweaters in cold weather
Nobody can do it better baby down for whatever
She gangsta like lil' Kim sexy like Alicia Keys
Funny like smoore baby cooler than a summer breeze
Man I swear my baby cuter than a teddy bear, nobody compares
Lil' mama baby that's why I am your man
[Chorus: x2]
Oh so sexy, oh so sexy, oh so sexy, oh so sexy
Oh so sexy you got that natural
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
So amazing I'm getting faded
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
Oh so sexy you got that natural
The way you moving ooh that's crazy
So amazing I'm getting faded
Off you so intoxicating
Pretty feet with open toes
Scent of your neck is like a fresh red rose
X-ray vision passing through your clothes
But I really cant wait to see you naked though
The way your body move and you dip it slow
I try to play it cool but I gotta let you know
The way you looking I can tell you wanna go
Skip the preview and lets get to the show
My baby she kick it, she cool with all the fellas, she hood
Like taking chances but classy like Cinderella
She down like four flats, my baby girl is real,
She done weathered the storm and baby down with you still
[Chorus]
Now we at home and were all alone
With no interruptions just turn off you phone
Daddy's little girl but now that your all grown
Birthday suit is all you got on
Got the radio on and its playing your song
Touching on your body all night long
Feels so right that it cant be wrong
Sexual healing coming on strong
Them curves like a coke bottle cant be beat
Pedicure every week on them cute little feet
She a freak under the covers but she keep it discrete
She's my midnight treat baby for real that's why I remain
[Chorus]
She shaped like an hour glass
Flier than a mockingbird
Baby got that smooth skin softer than some fox fur
We go together like sweaters in cold weather
Nobody can do it better baby down for whatever
She gangsta like lil' Kim sexy like Alicia Keys
Funny like smoore baby cooler than a summer breeze
Man I swear my baby cuter than a teddy bear, nobody compares
Lil' mama baby that's why I am your man
[Chorus: x2]
Oh so sexy, oh so sexy, oh so sexy, oh so sexy
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