"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.
I gotta a little hunch
That there is somethin'
Goin' on now
The clothes I bought
The friends I got
My teacher had a meltdown
Then I look at me
And I start to see
An I voice inside
Tells me what I must do
Wake up who knew
It's me its you
Get a clue
It's there inside of you
The girls: oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Theirs nothing can't do
Nothin's ever quite what it seems
Just look a little closer at me
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
That's the way it goes now
Did you ever see the world around you
Shift before your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes
The people you ignore before
They took you by surprise
Your eyes, your eyes
Then you look at me
And I start to see
That somethin' happens
When I'm next to you
Oh yeah, lets go
That's the way it goes now
Oh yeah, lets go
The first one came on a Tuesday afternoon
When I first saw you
The next one came to my surprise
When I found out what I had to do
Take a photograph of me
Hang it in a gallery
Sit around and watch tv
Turn around and then you'd look at me
Yeah, yeah
Yappapie
Oh yeah lets go
I gotta little hunch
That there is somethin'
Goin' on now
The clothes I bought
The friends I got
My teacher had a meltdown
Get a clue
It's there in side of you
The girls: oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Theirs nothing you can't do
Nothings ever quite what it seems
Just look a little closer at me
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
That's the way it goes now
Oh yeah lets go
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
That there is somethin'
Goin' on now
The clothes I bought
The friends I got
My teacher had a meltdown
Then I look at me
And I start to see
An I voice inside
Tells me what I must do
Wake up who knew
It's me its you
Get a clue
It's there inside of you
The girls: oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Theirs nothing can't do
Nothin's ever quite what it seems
Just look a little closer at me
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
That's the way it goes now
Did you ever see the world around you
Shift before your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes
The people you ignore before
They took you by surprise
Your eyes, your eyes
Then you look at me
And I start to see
That somethin' happens
When I'm next to you
Oh yeah, lets go
That's the way it goes now
Oh yeah, lets go
The first one came on a Tuesday afternoon
When I first saw you
The next one came to my surprise
When I found out what I had to do
Take a photograph of me
Hang it in a gallery
Sit around and watch tv
Turn around and then you'd look at me
Yeah, yeah
Yappapie
Oh yeah lets go
I gotta little hunch
That there is somethin'
Goin' on now
The clothes I bought
The friends I got
My teacher had a meltdown
Get a clue
It's there in side of you
The girls: oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Theirs nothing you can't do
Nothings ever quite what it seems
Just look a little closer at me
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
Oh yeah lets go
That's the way it goes now
Oh yeah lets go
Wake up who knew
Its me its you
Get a clue
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Get a Clue Lyrics as written by Mccollum Levine
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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I think this song is about some1 who realizes they really like some1 who they actaully enver really payed attention to.. untill they got to know them.... Nothing is quite like it seems... look a lil closer to me!... so theyre like its me.. its u.. get a clue!! its an awesome song!