"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.
Sombody pass me that
Guitar I want to no if you can spare a few minutes of
Your time you no all this chumpin and chimpin and chubin
And all round down the world heartake can be broke n break n me
But were gunna write somthin nice n smooth chek it uh (eaala)
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
As I travel down lifes highways
Thinkin the days gone by
I'm a city man but my heart keeps
Yearnin for some bluey country side
In a place where no ones a stranger
Say hello and how are you
Let the musik play in the middle a day
Smell the sewy poorin in you
Oh a lala la la la la la la
There's no place that seems too far
Not on earth or amungst the stars
I just close my eyes n dream
If I can reach it by motor car
Sit on top of the highest mountain feel I can touch the sky
Then imagine I was bird and I would spread my wings and fly
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
As I often look to the sun as it meets the rising shore
Seen the lowest things
A fimilar place but the face I've seen before
April showers bring may flowers so let the rains come down
With all this sin well that all depends
I wish my friends cood see me now
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Lalalala la la la la la la whoa a oh
Didalee dumb da nana na na na
Digidy boom boom boom
Wo wom a top ma ma moon
Ah la la la la la la la la
I wish my friends could see me now
Guitar I want to no if you can spare a few minutes of
Your time you no all this chumpin and chimpin and chubin
And all round down the world heartake can be broke n break n me
But were gunna write somthin nice n smooth chek it uh (eaala)
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
As I travel down lifes highways
Thinkin the days gone by
I'm a city man but my heart keeps
Yearnin for some bluey country side
In a place where no ones a stranger
Say hello and how are you
Let the musik play in the middle a day
Smell the sewy poorin in you
Oh a lala la la la la la la
There's no place that seems too far
Not on earth or amungst the stars
I just close my eyes n dream
If I can reach it by motor car
Sit on top of the highest mountain feel I can touch the sky
Then imagine I was bird and I would spread my wings and fly
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
As I often look to the sun as it meets the rising shore
Seen the lowest things
A fimilar place but the face I've seen before
April showers bring may flowers so let the rains come down
With all this sin well that all depends
I wish my friends cood see me now
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
I honor the moon round the stars and back to earth to you
Fa-fallow me through round the world
And back in the honor of the moon
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Tell a ma me tell a ma me tell a ma me na non
Lalalala la la la la la la whoa a oh
Didalee dumb da nana na na na
Digidy boom boom boom
Wo wom a top ma ma moon
Ah la la la la la la la la
I wish my friends could see me now
Lyrics submitted by j o r d a n 2 0 0 4
The Plumb Song Lyrics as written by Glenn Rosenstein Darin O'brien
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