"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.
Whispers passed in silence
Two lovers passing in the night
A love that's left and hopeless
That can never survive
[Chorus]
What are we gonna do
What are they gonna to say
Where are we gonna to go
When they find out
What are we gonna do
What are they gonna say
Where are we gonna go
When they find out
Sing your song sing your song sing your song
Really don't know you well
Got to get to know me too
So see, we can make this work
Through your friends won't approve
See, we can't let them know
Exactly what's going on
'Cause they won't understand
What we have between us
[Chorus]
Woody, Woody, Woody, Woddy
I know we may be rushing
There's no time to think it through
'Cause when love overcomes your heart
There's nothing you can do
Misery loves company
By now you should know
People always have advice about being together
When they're all alone
I cry
I cry, I cry, late at night baby
Inside
Inside my heart babe
I was all alone
Don't you let no God damn body come near
And tear our love apart
'Cause I love you girl
You're all my world
So what are we gonna do
What are we gonna do
I feel so afraid, babe
Feel like a baby
Just hold me darling
And let me know
I need to know
I've got to know
What are we, oh baby
[Chorus: x2]
What are we gonna do
Oh well, well, well, well, well, well
Oh baby, well, well, well, well
Two lovers passing in the night
A love that's left and hopeless
That can never survive
[Chorus]
What are we gonna do
What are they gonna to say
Where are we gonna to go
When they find out
What are we gonna do
What are they gonna say
Where are we gonna go
When they find out
Sing your song sing your song sing your song
Really don't know you well
Got to get to know me too
So see, we can make this work
Through your friends won't approve
See, we can't let them know
Exactly what's going on
'Cause they won't understand
What we have between us
[Chorus]
Woody, Woody, Woody, Woddy
I know we may be rushing
There's no time to think it through
'Cause when love overcomes your heart
There's nothing you can do
Misery loves company
By now you should know
People always have advice about being together
When they're all alone
I cry
I cry, I cry, late at night baby
Inside
Inside my heart babe
I was all alone
Don't you let no God damn body come near
And tear our love apart
'Cause I love you girl
You're all my world
So what are we gonna do
What are we gonna do
I feel so afraid, babe
Feel like a baby
Just hold me darling
And let me know
I need to know
I've got to know
What are we, oh baby
[Chorus: x2]
What are we gonna do
Oh well, well, well, well, well, well
Oh baby, well, well, well, well
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What Are We Gonna Do Lyrics as written by Anthony Schapell Crawford Montell Jordan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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