"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.
move back just a little let me watch
your hips sway
hold me looser still throw me like I'm
wet clay
and you a feast I devour
if you let me be the man of the hour
cause you are rhythm I'm a cold shower
baby wait baby wait I'm reaching in your
pocket baby wait
baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait I'm deeper in your
pocket baby now
baby now it's coming
private figure skater I love when your
eyes fix
up and down figure eighter you stick
with the old tricks
and you alone my soul entrancer
let me be your private dancer
cause you got moves motion me an
answer
baby wait baby wait i'm reaching in your pocket
baby wait , baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait I'm deeper in your pocket
baby now, baby now it's coming
carnival hazy eyes tango lovers
tranquilize
private dances secret glances
of high strung tip toe fringe of a taut
brown leather
strikes me down with the weight of a
feather
we'll be moving love forever together
if you wait baby wait I'm reaching in your pocket
baby wait, baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait i'm deeper in your pocket
baby now baby now it's coming
your hips sway
hold me looser still throw me like I'm
wet clay
and you a feast I devour
if you let me be the man of the hour
cause you are rhythm I'm a cold shower
baby wait baby wait I'm reaching in your
pocket baby wait
baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait I'm deeper in your
pocket baby now
baby now it's coming
private figure skater I love when your
eyes fix
up and down figure eighter you stick
with the old tricks
and you alone my soul entrancer
let me be your private dancer
cause you got moves motion me an
answer
baby wait baby wait i'm reaching in your pocket
baby wait , baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait I'm deeper in your pocket
baby now, baby now it's coming
carnival hazy eyes tango lovers
tranquilize
private dances secret glances
of high strung tip toe fringe of a taut
brown leather
strikes me down with the weight of a
feather
we'll be moving love forever together
if you wait baby wait I'm reaching in your pocket
baby wait, baby wait it's coming
wait baby wait i'm deeper in your pocket
baby now baby now it's coming
Lyrics submitted by itsmesarah1
Wait Lyrics as written by Elsten Creole Torres Michael James Peterson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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this song is about having sex, plain and simple. its a good song too, one of my favorites
Yeah, it's about sex, but it's about how beautiful making love (yes, sex) can be. Her whole physical being is beautiful and marvelous to him. Comparing her to a figure skater shows that she is skilled, but mainly, to me, it shows how elegant she is (in bed, but probably otherwise too).
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I actually don't think the characters in this song are having sex yet. I think this is about a guy who sees a hottie on the dance floor and wants to sleep with her. He's afraid she's out of his league ("you are rhythm, I'm a cold shower"). He's imagining the seductive things he could say to her, but he needs time to get up his courage, and in that time, she could disappear. That's why he hopes she will wait.
I don't think it's about sex. I think the guy is at a strip club fantasizing about the stripper/dancer and what he would do if they could be alone together. She's obviously talented and beautiful and he doesn't want her to move to another area to dance for anyone else so he's "reaching in your pocket" meaning he's gonna give her money so she'll stay and perform for him. I love how eloquent the writing is. Not at all obvious or vulgar.