"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 got a way in finding all the wrong place to go
Being everywhere I ain't supposed to be at the right time
That's I do so bad at life, if you need a friend to show you already know
If you got a lot of time to blow, I got the rest of the night
I suck at doing anything right I'm right ever
Whatever you don't wanna have to depend on someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life
Take a champagne glass to the rest of me
I know I make you so happy,
But I'm the only life you got, ask the Lord
That he saved my soul some day
If God will come around my way, imagine if I pray,
I really don't wanna be this way,
But I'm not ever whatever
You don't wanna have to depend on someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life
Is that what, you can't do a body
You gotta live with it you can't live without it
I'm trying to change I'm so sorry
I'm not your friend, I'm your life
I'm not ever whatever you don't wanna have to depend
On someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life, yeah
I'm your life, yeah
I'm your life, oh oh, whatever whatever you don't want,
I can't be your friend my friend
Whatever, whatever, I'm not your friend, I'm just your life,
I'm your life.
Being everywhere I ain't supposed to be at the right time
That's I do so bad at life, if you need a friend to show you already know
If you got a lot of time to blow, I got the rest of the night
I suck at doing anything right I'm right ever
Whatever you don't wanna have to depend on someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life
Take a champagne glass to the rest of me
I know I make you so happy,
But I'm the only life you got, ask the Lord
That he saved my soul some day
If God will come around my way, imagine if I pray,
I really don't wanna be this way,
But I'm not ever whatever
You don't wanna have to depend on someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life
Is that what, you can't do a body
You gotta live with it you can't live without it
I'm trying to change I'm so sorry
I'm not your friend, I'm your life
I'm not ever whatever you don't wanna have to depend
On someone to lean on
And whatever whatever you don't want promise to give more
I'm right in time and I'm not your friend
I'm your life, yeah
I'm your life, yeah
I'm your life, oh oh, whatever whatever you don't want,
I can't be your friend my friend
Whatever, whatever, I'm not your friend, I'm just your life,
I'm your life.
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I'm Your Life Lyrics as written by Chrisette Payne Charles Harmon
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