"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.
Well, I guess it would be nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like me
But I gotta think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
'Cause I play them too
Oh, but I need some time off
From that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
When that love comes down
Without devotion
Well it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showin' you that door
I gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Baby, I know you're askin' me to stay
Say please, please, please don't go away
'Cause you're givin' me the blues
Maybe you might mean all the words you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to the lover boy rules
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you pick my heart up off the floor
When our love comes down
Without devotion
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showing you that door
I gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Get the fuck up
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Faith
Have faith
Ah
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like me
But I gotta think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
'Cause I play them too
Oh, but I need some time off
From that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
When that love comes down
Without devotion
Well it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showin' you that door
I gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Baby, I know you're askin' me to stay
Say please, please, please don't go away
'Cause you're givin' me the blues
Maybe you might mean all the words you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to the lover boy rules
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you pick my heart up off the floor
When our love comes down
Without devotion
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showing you that door
I gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Gotta have faith
Get the fuck up
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Faith
Have faith
Ah
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Faith Lyrics as written by George Michael
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