"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.
You better love loving and you better behave
You better love loving and you better behave
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Calls her man the great white hope
Says she's fine, she'll always cope
Ohh, woman in chains
Woman in chains
Well I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal (a poor man's deal)
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel (your eyes of steel)
Well it's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains
Oh oh oh oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Trades her soul as skin and bones
Sells the only thing she owns, oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Men of stone
Men of stone
Oh, no no no
Well I feel
Deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
And I feel
Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
Well you know what I mean
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains
It's under my skin but out of my hands
I'll tear it apart but I won't understand
I will not accept the greatness of man
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps a woman in chains
Gone crazy, keeps woman in chains
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
You better love loving and you better behave
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Calls her man the great white hope
Says she's fine, she'll always cope
Ohh, woman in chains
Woman in chains
Well I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal (a poor man's deal)
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel (your eyes of steel)
Well it's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains
Oh oh oh oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Trades her soul as skin and bones
Sells the only thing she owns, oh oh
Woman in chains
Woman in chains
Men of stone
Men of stone
Oh, no no no
Well I feel
Deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
And I feel
Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
Well you know what I mean
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps woman in chains
It's under my skin but out of my hands
I'll tear it apart but I won't understand
I will not accept the greatness of man
It's a world gone crazy
Keeps a woman in chains
Gone crazy, keeps woman in chains
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
So free her
Lyrics submitted by Willowbear
Woman In Chains Lyrics as written by Roland Orzabal
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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from above..... and the end of the day its blinding song and very cleverly wrighten. did you know that roland done 11 versions of the song before he chose this way. also phil collins played the drums on this song. and it doesnt matter how many times i hear this song ( and ive heard it thousands of times) i still love it.