"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.
Like your hair much better that way
When it hangs out front when it hangs out front
With tilted head like a listener
But I'm just thinking about the red dress
I like the red dress
I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my way
From coast to coast I'm chilly most I'm chill
I never knew the way to Pasadena
But now I know and now I know and I am grateful
You say you'll burn this city down
With stars and stripes with stars and stripes
And ask if I'll move out west with you
But I'm still thinking about the red dress
I like the red dress
Coast to coast and in too deep
Saving our secret for the weekends
Which I can't remember
Motel walls and in disguise
Telephone calls we don't reply
With drink I see things better
I'll see you around
We'll bring the house down
We'll bring the house down
I like the red dress
When it hangs out front when it hangs out front
With tilted head like a listener
But I'm just thinking about the red dress
I like the red dress
I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my way
From coast to coast I'm chilly most I'm chill
I never knew the way to Pasadena
But now I know and now I know and I am grateful
You say you'll burn this city down
With stars and stripes with stars and stripes
And ask if I'll move out west with you
But I'm still thinking about the red dress
I like the red dress
Coast to coast and in too deep
Saving our secret for the weekends
Which I can't remember
Motel walls and in disguise
Telephone calls we don't reply
With drink I see things better
I'll see you around
We'll bring the house down
We'll bring the house down
I like the red dress
Lyrics submitted by walkingonawire
Red Dress Lyrics as written by Joshua Allen Cain Jesse Mack Johnson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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