"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.
Oh oh oh yeieieieih
Take away my pain , I beg you
Take away my tears
Make me smile again and laugh with me
When I chase away my fears
'Cause you're my happy thought baby
What makes me come around
Touch me one more time
I am yours to be found
Oh oh oh, so come a little closer baby
Oh oh oh, let's make a little lovebaby
Oh oh oh...
Take away my pain I beg you
Take away my tears
Sweep me of my feet and dance with
When I dance away my fears
'Cause you're what makes me fly baby
What makes me
Touch me one more time
I am yours to be found
Oh, oh, oh...
For every dream we share
For everything that's true
You'll never see me cry again
It's all because of you
The future lies before us
It's there for us to take
No nothings more important
Than the music we can make
Oh oh oh come a little closer baby
Oh oh oh yeieieieih...
Take away my pain , I beg you
Take away my tears
Make me smile again and laugh with me
When I chase away my fears
'Cause you're my happy thought baby
What makes me come around
Touch me one more time
I am yours to be found
Oh oh oh, so come a little closer baby
Oh oh oh, let's make a little lovebaby
Oh oh oh...
Take away my pain I beg you
Take away my tears
Sweep me of my feet and dance with
When I dance away my fears
'Cause you're what makes me fly baby
What makes me
Touch me one more time
I am yours to be found
Oh, oh, oh...
For every dream we share
For everything that's true
You'll never see me cry again
It's all because of you
The future lies before us
It's there for us to take
No nothings more important
Than the music we can make
Oh oh oh come a little closer baby
Oh oh oh yeieieieih...
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