"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 can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
'Cause the whole thing's phoney.
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me
Bella Donna
And we fight for the northern star
No speed limit this is the fast lane
It's just the way that it is here
And you say I never thought it could
Bella Donna we fight
For the northern star
And the lady's feeling
Like the moon that she loved
Don't you know that the stars are
A part of us
And the lady's feeling
Just like the moon that she loved
And you say I never thought it could
Bella Donna
Come in out of the darkness
You are in love with
And I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling
Sort of captures your soul
Bella Donna
And the woman may be awestruck
And the woman may truly care
But the woman is so tired
So the woman disappears
Come in out of the darkness
Bella Donna my soul
Don't change baby please don't change
And you say
And your face becomes thin
You never thought it could
Come in out of the darkness
Bella Donna
You are in love with
And I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling
I know you won't fall
'Cause the whole thing's phoney.
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me
Bella Donna
And we fight for the northern star
No speed limit this is the fast lane
It's just the way that it is here
And you say I never thought it could
Bella Donna we fight
For the northern star
And the lady's feeling
Like the moon that she loved
Don't you know that the stars are
A part of us
And the lady's feeling
Just like the moon that she loved
And you say I never thought it could
Bella Donna
Come in out of the darkness
You are in love with
And I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling
Sort of captures your soul
Bella Donna
And the woman may be awestruck
And the woman may truly care
But the woman is so tired
So the woman disappears
Come in out of the darkness
Bella Donna my soul
Don't change baby please don't change
And you say
And your face becomes thin
You never thought it could
Come in out of the darkness
Bella Donna
You are in love with
And I'm ready to sail
It's just a feeling
Lyrics submitted by I won't walk away
Bella Donna Lyrics as written by Stevie Nicks
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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