"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 just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
Where will I begin
I thought I was in love
Janie
Janie that's your best friend
She came to me (she came to me)
and explained, see, this all could end (this all could end)
and suddenly (suddenly)
So much for romance now
I'm giving it up
I missed my chance now
Had a glance at true love
Oh oh!
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We just friends
It took so long for you to
Let me know
Took so long for you to
Let me know
Maybe I'm just
Delusional
You told me that we shared
Something beautiful
So tell me how this can
Be suitable
---
So I'm asking you
How did you decide?
If you didn't love me girl
How did you make up your mind?
Was it something I said
Losing my groove, yeah
Remember how we used to dance?
Never missed a beat
It was you and me
In unison
In unison
----
The way you look at me
Tell me that you don't see
I love you
I love...
So what's it gonna be
---
Someday you'll know girl
The value of me (baby!)
---
Someday you'll wonder
Where I'll be (One Day!)
---
Sometimes it ain't meant to be
---
Understood each other's hearts
Maybe we could make a start
We believe in
We believed in
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
Where will I begin
I thought I was in love
Janie
Janie that's your best friend
She came to me (she came to me)
and explained, see, this all could end (this all could end)
and suddenly (suddenly)
So much for romance now
I'm giving it up
I missed my chance now
Had a glance at true love
Oh oh!
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We just friends
It took so long for you to
Let me know
Took so long for you to
Let me know
Maybe I'm just
Delusional
You told me that we shared
Something beautiful
So tell me how this can
Be suitable
---
So I'm asking you
How did you decide?
If you didn't love me girl
How did you make up your mind?
Was it something I said
Losing my groove, yeah
Remember how we used to dance?
Never missed a beat
It was you and me
In unison
In unison
----
The way you look at me
Tell me that you don't see
I love you
I love...
So what's it gonna be
---
Someday you'll know girl
The value of me (baby!)
---
Someday you'll wonder
Where I'll be (One Day!)
---
Sometimes it ain't meant to be
---
Understood each other's hearts
Maybe we could make a start
We believe in
We believed in
This just in
We just friends
This just in
We're just friends
This just in
We're just friends
Lyrics submitted by soccercake7
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