"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.
Clever girl
Think you are but you think too much
Shut down turn around
Don't look that way any more
Clever girl
Think you know but you don't know much
Try to make a move
Go to a different door
You know it's all in your head
You better put that business to bed
By your fair hands of design you met with
The monster in your mind
You did it again
You did it again
Won't you listen to me when I'm telling you it's no good for you
Clever girl
Think you're right
But what's right from wrong
Little miss genius
You make it hard on yourself
Clever girl
You've got it all but you're all messed up
Time now turn around
Move onto something else
You know it's all in your head
You'd better put that business to bed
What you see nobody sees
It only brings you to your knees
Clever girl
Think you're right
But what's right from wrong
Little miss genius
You make it hard on yourself
Think you are but you think too much
Shut down turn around
Don't look that way any more
Clever girl
Think you know but you don't know much
Try to make a move
Go to a different door
You know it's all in your head
You better put that business to bed
By your fair hands of design you met with
The monster in your mind
You did it again
You did it again
Won't you listen to me when I'm telling you it's no good for you
Clever girl
Think you're right
But what's right from wrong
Little miss genius
You make it hard on yourself
Clever girl
You've got it all but you're all messed up
Time now turn around
Move onto something else
You know it's all in your head
You'd better put that business to bed
What you see nobody sees
It only brings you to your knees
Clever girl
Think you're right
But what's right from wrong
Little miss genius
You make it hard on yourself
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Great version of a great song,
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i luv this song n i cant believe i'm the first 2 add something!!! :O but yeah, i think this song is about Kylie telling some chick off 4 goin 4 a guy she'd neva have a chance with and bein all delusional. im probly wrong, but thats how i translated it. GO KYLIE!!!
i have no idea wat the song means, but i dont care. i looovvveeee it! i never really liked kylie, but i saw this song on tv and iw as like that is so cool!!! i realli love the film clip lol with all the diff kylies. im pretty surprised that there r only 2 comments on here tho :D kool song.
She could be talking about herself...
Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's about a girl who's habits of thought always get her into trouble or lead her inevitably to outcomes that she doesn't want. She is trying to tell herself to stop those habits and go in a new direction.
It could be talking about this in relation to relationships, or career, or friendships or all of these.
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Kylie said in an interview that the song was inspired by negative stories that the press had published about her, and as a result, Kylie used this as an advantage and wrote it as if she was "telling herself off.