"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 used to follow you and your friends
To the ice rink
The back of your skidoo made me all wet
(From snow)
You'd pat me on the head as we stole
Your dad's Chevrolet, one more time
I bought new hiking boots
So you'd think I was cool
(You didn't care, cause you never knew I was alive)
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you, that night
My love transcended space and time
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you, that night
My love transcended space and time
My first
You used to ride yer red and white dirt bike
I'd hold yer jacket close to my heart so tight
My mom woke me up, early and said,
"Look what yer friends did to my front yard!"
It was me and my sisters, out my window
There it was!
There, baby!
You peed my name in the snow!
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you that night
My love transcended space and time
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you that night
My love transcended space and time
My first
(Meet me in the school yard, after eight
Still grounded, I couldn't stay out late
Remember all the things you said
In the back of that Chevrolet
When we were only fifteen?)
My daddy moved us to a big city
Yer smiling face, I never again did see no more
I wonder how you are, and I wonder
If you think about me still
Would you guess what I'm doing?
You and yer friends
I want you to remember that you were my first
We are lucky to have something to eat
Everything happens for a reason,
And that's good to remember
'Cause the music business is really, really weird.
To the ice rink
The back of your skidoo made me all wet
(From snow)
You'd pat me on the head as we stole
Your dad's Chevrolet, one more time
I bought new hiking boots
So you'd think I was cool
(You didn't care, cause you never knew I was alive)
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you, that night
My love transcended space and time
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you, that night
My love transcended space and time
My first
You used to ride yer red and white dirt bike
I'd hold yer jacket close to my heart so tight
My mom woke me up, early and said,
"Look what yer friends did to my front yard!"
It was me and my sisters, out my window
There it was!
There, baby!
You peed my name in the snow!
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you that night
My love transcended space and time
I never wanted anything
The way I wanted you that night
My love transcended space and time
My first
(Meet me in the school yard, after eight
Still grounded, I couldn't stay out late
Remember all the things you said
In the back of that Chevrolet
When we were only fifteen?)
My daddy moved us to a big city
Yer smiling face, I never again did see no more
I wonder how you are, and I wonder
If you think about me still
Would you guess what I'm doing?
You and yer friends
I want you to remember that you were my first
We are lucky to have something to eat
Everything happens for a reason,
And that's good to remember
'Cause the music business is really, really weird.
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Anything Lyrics as written by Rich Priske Beth Nicole Hopkins
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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