"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'm not about to give up
Because I heard you say
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I wont stop, I'll keep my head up
No, I'm not here to stay
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move, move
I'm gonna move, move
I'm gonna move (I'm gonna move)
I've got to hold 'er steady
Keep my head in the game
Everything is about to change
Everything is about to change
This hurt is getting heavy
But I'm not about to cave
Everything is about to change
There's gonna be brighter days
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down oh,
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move (No matter what may come)
(Gotta move to a different drum)
I'm gonna move
(No matter what life brings, gotta move, gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
(No matter what may come)
(Gotta move to a different drum)
(No matter what life brings)(Gotta move, gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along, and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
When life won't play along, and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move (No matter what may come)
I'm gonna move (Gotta move to a different drum)
I'm gonna move (No matter what life brings)
I'm gonna move (Gotta move, Gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
Because I heard you say
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I wont stop, I'll keep my head up
No, I'm not here to stay
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move, move
I'm gonna move, move
I'm gonna move (I'm gonna move)
I've got to hold 'er steady
Keep my head in the game
Everything is about to change
Everything is about to change
This hurt is getting heavy
But I'm not about to cave
Everything is about to change
There's gonna be brighter days
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down oh,
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move (No matter what may come)
(Gotta move to a different drum)
I'm gonna move
(No matter what life brings, gotta move, gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
(No matter what may come)
(Gotta move to a different drum)
(No matter what life brings)(Gotta move, gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face
When life won't play along, and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
When life won't play along, and right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found, so I won't let it drag me down, oh
I'll keep dancing anyway
I'm gonna move (No matter what may come)
I'm gonna move (Gotta move to a different drum)
I'm gonna move (No matter what life brings)
I'm gonna move (Gotta move, Gotta move gotta move to a different beat)
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Move Lyrics as written by Jessica Cornish Ashton Thomas Millard
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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