"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.
Where you been hidin'?
I'm believing
You give me life
Life my dear
You give me strength to beat the odds
And overcome my fears
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You never grow old
Because you're forever young
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
When I'm alone you make me feel at home
If I give enough of you
To a higher place we'll go
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You'll never grow old
Because you're forever young
And you know that you got my tomorrow baby
Today and yesterday
Believe that you've got my tomorrow baby
I'll hold you close as far as I can see
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
I'm believing
You give me life
Life my dear
You give me strength to beat the odds
And overcome my fears
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You never grow old
Because you're forever young
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
When I'm alone you make me feel at home
If I give enough of you
To a higher place we'll go
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You'll never grow old
Because you're forever young
And you know that you got my tomorrow baby
Today and yesterday
Believe that you've got my tomorrow baby
I'll hold you close as far as I can see
If there's love
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just want to feel yours
Lyrics submitted by So_Impossible
If There's Love Lyrics as written by Clarence Greenwood
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Wow, this is such an amzing song! Just listening to it brings back memories of what it feels like to be in love. If all the feeling and emotions that come with falling in love with someone could be written down on paper, these would be them. =)
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I never thought it was possible to tangibly express what love feels like, but this does it.
Clarence is talking about being in love (shocker). He doesn't understand how he could have lived before he met his "dear," wanting to know how she could have been hidden from his searching eyes for him. He definately focuses on age throughout most of the piece, saying that they can (and probably will, with lines like "you've got my tomorrow, baby") be together forever, but he'll still always see her as being as youthful and radiant as the day when they first met and fell in love.
The first time I heard it though, I kept focusing on the shallow selfishness of it all. He kept saying in the chorus, "If there's love, I just want to have something to do with it." It made me think of those high school girls who just want to be in love, who look for it, and that's not authentic love, to me.
-And I'm pretty sure it's "I just want to feel yours," not young. :)
(Sorry for writing so much, this song just holds so much meaning to me.)
i'm sorry if any of these lyrics are terribly incorrect. i did this by ear.
this songs sounds like crickets and angels. if this is what it's like to be in love...
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. I never thought it was possible to tangibly express what love feels like, but this does it.
Clarence is talking about being in love (shocker). He doesn't understand how he could have lived before he met his "dear," wanting to know how she could have been hidden from his searching eyes for him. He definately focuses on age throughout most of the piece, saying that they can (and probably will, with lines like "you've got my tomorrow, baby") be together forever, but he'll still always see her as being as youthful and radiant as the day when they first met and fell in love.
The first time I heard it though, I kept focusing on the shallow selfishness of it all. He kept saying in the chorus, "If there's love, I just want to have something to do with it." It made me think of those high school girls who just want to be in love, who look for it, and that's not authentic love, to me.
-And I'm pretty sure it's "I just want to feel yours," not young. :)
(Sorry for writing so much, this song just holds so much meaning to me.)
This song is great, it is what I fill for my g/f.Its like it read my mind.I dig it
These lyrics definitely create a certain tangibility to being in love. Good song. :)
What a beutiful song.