"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 wanna smash your fears
And get drunken off your tears
Don't you share your smile with anyone else but me
I wanna touch your heart
I wanna crush it in my hands
Make you plead and cry as you give up all the lies
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
No more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you
Stuck in a real bad dream
And man, it feels so new to me
Should be in your arms but I'm begging at your feet
It's been a real hard night
And I just hold my pillow tight
It won't love me back, no,
It's not you and I
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
No more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you ah
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you (Tonight I'm getting over you)
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
And no more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
And get drunken off your tears
Don't you share your smile with anyone else but me
I wanna touch your heart
I wanna crush it in my hands
Make you plead and cry as you give up all the lies
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
No more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you
Stuck in a real bad dream
And man, it feels so new to me
Should be in your arms but I'm begging at your feet
It's been a real hard night
And I just hold my pillow tight
It won't love me back, no,
It's not you and I
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
No more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you ah
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Tonight I'm getting over you
Over you
Over you (Tonight I'm getting over you)
We're not lovers
But more than friends
Put a flame to every single word you ever said
And no more crying
To get me through
I'll keep dancing 'til the morning with somebody new
Tonight I'm getting over you
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Tonight I'm Getting Over You Lyrics as written by Clarence Bernard Coffee Carly Rae Jepsen
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"I wanna touch your heart.I wanna crush it in my hands Make you plead and cry as you give up all the lies." = He basically lead her on with his lies (that he loved her). This has caused her extreme emotional pain/conflict where she is torn between her love for him and wanting to 'crush his heart' to destroy him for his lies and deceit.
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"It's been a real hard night And I just hold my pillow tight It won't love me back, no, It's not you and I"
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