"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.
Tangle up your twisted tongue, it's simple
Mesmerize your everyday, it's simple
Hey hey can't you see?
Love is all that you should need
Can't you see?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Pry into combative times, it's simple
Forfeit all lush concerns, it's simple
Hey hey don't you care?
Love is all that you should share
Don't you care?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Cleansing out your tarnished heart
It's simple
Learning from each other can be simple
Hey hey don't we know?
Love is all that we should show
Don't we know?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Mesmerize your everyday, it's simple
Hey hey can't you see?
Love is all that you should need
Can't you see?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Pry into combative times, it's simple
Forfeit all lush concerns, it's simple
Hey hey don't you care?
Love is all that you should share
Don't you care?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Cleansing out your tarnished heart
It's simple
Learning from each other can be simple
Hey hey don't we know?
Love is all that we should show
Don't we know?
Ease your troubled mind
Let love seek & let love find, it's simple
Ease your weary soul
Let love lead & let love flow, it's simple
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Simple Lyrics as written by Ed Roland Ross Brian Childress
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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