"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.
Bed, stay in bed
The feeling of your skin locked in my head
Smoke smoke me broke
I don't care, I'm down for what you want
Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here
'Cause you dry my tears
Yeah, summer loving and fights
How it is for us, and it's all because
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Love can be love
Anything you want, I'll give it up
Lips, lips I kiss
Bite me while I taste your fingertips
Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here
'Cause you dry my tears
Yeah, summer loving and fights
How it is for us, and it's all because
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Bodies
Oh baby make 'em bodies, we just use for fun
Bodies
Let's use 'em up 'til every little piece is gone
(Let's go!) On and on and on
(Let's go!) On and on
(Let's go!)
Oh, now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Ooh now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
The feeling of your skin locked in my head
Smoke smoke me broke
I don't care, I'm down for what you want
Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here
'Cause you dry my tears
Yeah, summer loving and fights
How it is for us, and it's all because
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Love can be love
Anything you want, I'll give it up
Lips, lips I kiss
Bite me while I taste your fingertips
Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here
'Cause you dry my tears
Yeah, summer loving and fights
How it is for us, and it's all because
Now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Bodies
Oh baby make 'em bodies, we just use for fun
Bodies
Let's use 'em up 'til every little piece is gone
(Let's go!) On and on and on
(Let's go!) On and on
(Let's go!)
Oh, now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Ooh now if we're talking body
You got a perfect one, so put it on me
Swear it won't take you long
If you love me right
We love for life, on and on and on
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Talking Body Lyrics as written by Jakob Bo Jerlstroem Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fast Car
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According to the artist herself, this song is about two people trying to get over their problems by having lots of sex.
According to the words themselves, the song is saying the head is not involved in the decisions. Decisions made while still hung-over (day drunk) or worse while drinking. Decisions to be in that location with those people at that time. Going from day drunk through to night all body. However they don't get out of bed the first part of the song holding "good" day part back. 3 shifts in a date which means not until after breakfast completed does "good" day start and that kind of delay could be not until the alcohol to drunk starts. Shouldn't be Leaving Vegas so "talking body." One interpretation, however states an expert if the male is drinking with a girl and she is doing it for him and he is the professional he classifies his as all bad so that she gets the good or day part while excluding those he knows they are not suffering. Net zero.
It sounds like they had a fight and are having make up sex afterwards.