"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.
My pa is working overtime
Something's gotta give him
I'm about to lose my mind
Pushing to the limit, night and day
When all I really want is to get away
My sleep routine is all messed up
If something doesn't give him I'm about to break up
Little rest and little spell
I want a little time I tell you
I really need it
I am on my knees
Can't stop the craving
Are you deceiving me?
Maybe life likes a better (..)
Or maybe that's builded right (..)
Little (..) that's overflown
You better get ready to come
I am a time bomb
Ticking hourglass
I am a busy man
But I won't come back
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
Give me some time
When God created the seventh day
There is work waiting in the hay (?)
Maybe it got about all of us
'Cause we don't have time
I really need it
I am on my knees
Can't stop the craving
Are you deceiving me?
I am a time bomb
Ticking hourglass
I am a busy man
But I won't come back
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
Give me some time
Then the weekend ends
And the week goes so slow
But the moment
When the world was low
And tomorrow
And the day will come
I'll be hanging on
And I'm ready to go
I'm off to go
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
I need some more time
Give me some time
Need some more time
Want little time
Give me some time
Something's gotta give him
I'm about to lose my mind
Pushing to the limit, night and day
When all I really want is to get away
My sleep routine is all messed up
If something doesn't give him I'm about to break up
Little rest and little spell
I want a little time I tell you
I really need it
I am on my knees
Can't stop the craving
Are you deceiving me?
Maybe life likes a better (..)
Or maybe that's builded right (..)
Little (..) that's overflown
You better get ready to come
I am a time bomb
Ticking hourglass
I am a busy man
But I won't come back
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
Give me some time
When God created the seventh day
There is work waiting in the hay (?)
Maybe it got about all of us
'Cause we don't have time
I really need it
I am on my knees
Can't stop the craving
Are you deceiving me?
I am a time bomb
Ticking hourglass
I am a busy man
But I won't come back
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
Give me some time
Then the weekend ends
And the week goes so slow
But the moment
When the world was low
And tomorrow
And the day will come
I'll be hanging on
And I'm ready to go
I'm off to go
I need some time
Give me some time
A little bit of time
I need some more time
Give me some time
Need some more time
Want little time
Give me some time
Lyrics submitted by Mienie
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