"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.
Easy Moby on the controls
Oh, come and take me away
Oh, because everything is wrong today
I look the east, there are colors in the sky
The sun on my face, and oh I've started to cry
Easy Moby on the controls
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone now I feel so glad
'Cause every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Anytime you need some peace
Come along, and stay with me
The forest burns, there are fires in the sky
Is everybody under controls?
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone now I feel so glad
'Cause every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Colors in the sky)
One time in the place we've got to be free, come on
One time in the place now come stay with me
Because I pull it to the left, pull it to the right
Massive song, we never uptight
Want everybody just feel alright
Massive chorus to make you excite
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Word's out, come on people)
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
(Sound system's rocking myself)
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone, now I feel so glad
Every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(I am not looking to do that, do it to me)
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Beautiful people, now)
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
(Just come to thy self esteem)
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone, now I feel so glad
Every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Sound system's rocking myself)
Oh, come and take me away
Oh, because everything is wrong today
I look the east, there are colors in the sky
The sun on my face, and oh I've started to cry
Easy Moby on the controls
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone now I feel so glad
'Cause every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Anytime you need some peace
Come along, and stay with me
The forest burns, there are fires in the sky
Is everybody under controls?
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone now I feel so glad
'Cause every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Colors in the sky)
One time in the place we've got to be free, come on
One time in the place now come stay with me
Because I pull it to the left, pull it to the right
Massive song, we never uptight
Want everybody just feel alright
Massive chorus to make you excite
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Word's out, come on people)
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
(Sound system's rocking myself)
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone, now I feel so glad
Every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(I am not looking to do that, do it to me)
Because every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Beautiful people, now)
Every time you touch me I feel like I need some more
(Just come to thy self esteem)
Love's all high, never feeling bad
Used to be alone, now I feel so glad
Every time you touch me I feel like I'm being born
(Sound system's rocking myself)
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Everytime You Touch Me Lyrics as written by Richard Melville Hall
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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This sucks. all tecno sucks. How could you listen to this shit you are made of shit moby. In the infinet words of eminem "you can get stomped by ob you 36 year old bald headed fag, blow me your too old lets go its over ... Nobody listens to techno" -eminem