"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'm glad to see you my friend you look
real good let us journey now to the
stars and we can fly through space
and make huge robots and we will
give them places to live, we'll
visit other planets and make new
friends we'll hold hands and they'll
teach us a game it's fun to learn
the game and we all play, well
we like to taste all of their
strange foods
we navigate and we create
big robots, to help us out when
we land we make new friends
and they're impressed with our
robots, we like fun, games are fun
fun is good, robots are good, we
live on earth, but out in space
we like to live on our spaceship
exploring the universe...
we now must leave our new friends,
but don't be sad, we'll come back here
to see them again, and just maybe next
time we'll teach them a fun game, I
bet that they will learn it so fast
we give them hugs and smile, let's
wave goodbye! it's fun to see their
different parts, they're shaped a little
different than us, but hey, we love them
just the same cause they're swell
we navigate, and we create big robots
to help us out, when we land we meet
new friends, and they're impressed with
our robots, we like fun, games are fun,
fun is good, robots are good, we live on
Earth, but out in space, we like to live
on our spaceship
we are from earth, exploring the universe!
real good let us journey now to the
stars and we can fly through space
and make huge robots and we will
give them places to live, we'll
visit other planets and make new
friends we'll hold hands and they'll
teach us a game it's fun to learn
the game and we all play, well
we like to taste all of their
strange foods
we navigate and we create
big robots, to help us out when
we land we make new friends
and they're impressed with our
robots, we like fun, games are fun
fun is good, robots are good, we
live on earth, but out in space
we like to live on our spaceship
exploring the universe...
we now must leave our new friends,
but don't be sad, we'll come back here
to see them again, and just maybe next
time we'll teach them a fun game, I
bet that they will learn it so fast
we give them hugs and smile, let's
wave goodbye! it's fun to see their
different parts, they're shaped a little
different than us, but hey, we love them
just the same cause they're swell
we navigate, and we create big robots
to help us out, when we land we meet
new friends, and they're impressed with
our robots, we like fun, games are fun,
fun is good, robots are good, we live on
Earth, but out in space, we like to live
on our spaceship
we are from earth, exploring the universe!
Lyrics submitted by tender_rive
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