"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.
This one will never sell
They'll never understand
I don't even sing it well
I try but I just can't
But I sing it every night
And I fight to keep it in
'Cause this one's for you
This one's for you
I've done a hundred songs
From fantasy to lies
But this one so real for me
That I'm the one who cries
And I sing it every night
And I fight to hide the tears
'Cause this one's for you
This one's for you
This one's for you
Where ever you are
To say that nothing's been the same
Since we've been apart
This one's for all the love we once knew
Like every thing else I have
This one's for you ohh
I've got it all it seems
For all it means to me
But I sing of thing I miss
And things that used to be
And I wonder every night
If you might just miss me too
And I sing for you
I sing for you
This one's for you
Where ever I go
To say the things I should have said
Things that you should know
This one's to say that all I can do
Is hope that you will hear me sing
'Cause this one's for you ohh
This one's for you
Where ever you are
To say that nothin's been the same
Since we been apart ohh
This one's for all the love we once knew
Like every thing else I have
They'll never understand
I don't even sing it well
I try but I just can't
But I sing it every night
And I fight to keep it in
'Cause this one's for you
This one's for you
I've done a hundred songs
From fantasy to lies
But this one so real for me
That I'm the one who cries
And I sing it every night
And I fight to hide the tears
'Cause this one's for you
This one's for you
This one's for you
Where ever you are
To say that nothing's been the same
Since we've been apart
This one's for all the love we once knew
Like every thing else I have
This one's for you ohh
I've got it all it seems
For all it means to me
But I sing of thing I miss
And things that used to be
And I wonder every night
If you might just miss me too
And I sing for you
I sing for you
This one's for you
Where ever I go
To say the things I should have said
Things that you should know
This one's to say that all I can do
Is hope that you will hear me sing
'Cause this one's for you ohh
This one's for you
Where ever you are
To say that nothin's been the same
Since we been apart ohh
This one's for all the love we once knew
Like every thing else I have
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This One's For You Lyrics as written by Martin Panzer Barry Manilow
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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