"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'm looking at you
And I'm wondering what you're gonna do
Looks like you got no friends
No one to stick with you till the end
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
Yes, you think you're all right,
And now you're lonely every night
Well, you need a friend
Someone on whom you can always depend
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
Yes, you need some advice
Well, let me put it to you nice
I said you need a friend
Someone who'll stick with you to the end
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
And I'm wondering what you're gonna do
Looks like you got no friends
No one to stick with you till the end
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
Yes, you think you're all right,
And now you're lonely every night
Well, you need a friend
Someone on whom you can always depend
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
Yes, you need some advice
Well, let me put it to you nice
I said you need a friend
Someone who'll stick with you to the end
Take yourself a friend
Keep 'em till the end
Whether woman or man
It makes you feel so good
So good
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Best song on the album.
I find it hilarious.
Simple song inspired by the friendship of Geddy and Alex.
This is one of my favorite songs on the album and there's one thing I feel a lot of people failed to notice... I'm currently reviewing the entire Rush chronology and evaluating how styles evolve throughout their career and I realized that this song succeeds Need Some Love. It's a bit of a "duh" moment, but I hear this song and realize it's a response, that the narrator of each song isn't necessarily Geddy. The narrator of Take a Friend may or may not be Geddy, but he seems to be responding to the narrator in Need Some Love. He states "I said you need a friend. Someone who'll stick with you to the end" and that can be seen as a suggestion to the previous song's narrator that a platonic relationship is often more satisfying and longer lasting than a romantic one.
Here's to the piece of shit who wouldn't know a real friend if one bit him in his gay butt. I choose to be online because i'm tired from working. I don't feel loneliness because i have real friends. I don't have your disorders. And I don't fuck teens. The difference between us is where you'll be in a few years (alone) and where I'll be (in a wonderful loving, fun relationship). Now take your overused penis and stick it in a gullible young person who will do as usual...dump you within a few months, at the most.