"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.
Now Josephine, she was a loner
Her fortune of incredible lies
Her problems are now your problems
I hide a gun until the day she dies
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Now Angie, she was a demon
She had six arms and Lucifer eyes
She always had its glow
And always made me flow
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
This promise, love and all things go
From my love
She said please be kind and
Please be brave and kill for fun
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She lays down with a revolver
She's so cold, my heat evolved her
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Her fortune of incredible lies
Her problems are now your problems
I hide a gun until the day she dies
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
Now Angie, she was a demon
She had six arms and Lucifer eyes
She always had its glow
And always made me flow
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
This promise, love and all things go
From my love
She said please be kind and
Please be brave and kill for fun
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She lays down with a revolver
She's so cold, my heat evolved her
Don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
She said don't play with guns
Don't play with guns
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Don't Play with Guns Lyrics as written by Geary Bland Alexander Maas
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Dusty Springfield
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Page
Ed Sheeran
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It's pretty clearly about hired guns and not playing around with them. It even mentions a hired gun explicitly.
I think it's more than just a song about hired guns. I hear it more as a song about bad girls. Girls out of his league. Everyone knows one, the type of girl who knows how to get into and out of trouble. The warning about guns isn't actually saying, be careful with guns it's saying, don't play with me, I'm dangerous.