"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.
When winter hush turns summer pink
In half the time it takes to blink
But it all depends on what' choo think
About the girls of summer
When all you think of all day long
Is a pretty face inside a song
With a thought like that you can't go wrong
About the girls of summer
(What do you know, what everybody's talking about)
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Over and over again
My favorite thing that drives me wild
Is when a city girl walks a country mile
For a boy she loves
God bless the child inside the girls of summer
(What do you know, what everybody's talking about)
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Yeah over and over again
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
They get'choo climbin' the walls
They get'choo caught in their spell
They get'choo speakin' in tongues
Could this be heaven or hell
To fall in love twice a day
Is such a sweet price to pay
S'il vous plaît
The best things about life are free
The pussy willow up your tree
To the one who climbs they'll always be the girl yeah
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls no doubt about it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls got twenty reasons why
Over and over and over and over and over
In half the time it takes to blink
But it all depends on what' choo think
About the girls of summer
When all you think of all day long
Is a pretty face inside a song
With a thought like that you can't go wrong
About the girls of summer
(What do you know, what everybody's talking about)
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Over and over again
My favorite thing that drives me wild
Is when a city girl walks a country mile
For a boy she loves
God bless the child inside the girls of summer
(What do you know, what everybody's talking about)
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Yeah over and over again
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
They get'choo climbin' the walls
They get'choo caught in their spell
They get'choo speakin' in tongues
Could this be heaven or hell
To fall in love twice a day
Is such a sweet price to pay
S'il vous plaît
The best things about life are free
The pussy willow up your tree
To the one who climbs they'll always be the girl yeah
Some girls are all about it
Some girls they love to let it fly
Some girls no doubt about it
Some girls are born to make you cry
Some girls can't live without it
Some girls got twenty reasons why
Over and over and over and over and over
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uuum, EmoMakes Me Cry, you were right that he gets more girls than me. I AM A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!! So watch what the hell you say to people. And he is waaaaaaaaay to old to be singing about the girls of summer. Personally I'd be singing about the boys of summer...in Florida.