"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 it might not be that long
And it might not be that thick
But I know what I'm doing
When I'm working with my stick
It might not be that hard
And it might not have much gurth
But trust me from this encounter
There might just be a birth
-Cause I got stamina
Verse 2:
I might no last that long
I might finish right there in first
And if you move the wrong way baby
I might just burst
But you know how good I am
And you know that I'm the best
And once you had me baby
You won't want the rest
-Cause I got stamina
Verse 3:
Now wait a minute baby
I'm gonna take that all back
Cause I ain't no floppy old man
When I got business in the sack
I'm hard and I'm strong
I'm thick and I'm long
And if you stick with me baby
You can't go wrong
-Cause I got stamina
And it might not be that thick
But I know what I'm doing
When I'm working with my stick
It might not be that hard
And it might not have much gurth
But trust me from this encounter
There might just be a birth
-Cause I got stamina
Verse 2:
I might no last that long
I might finish right there in first
And if you move the wrong way baby
I might just burst
But you know how good I am
And you know that I'm the best
And once you had me baby
You won't want the rest
-Cause I got stamina
Verse 3:
Now wait a minute baby
I'm gonna take that all back
Cause I ain't no floppy old man
When I got business in the sack
I'm hard and I'm strong
I'm thick and I'm long
And if you stick with me baby
You can't go wrong
-Cause I got stamina
Lyrics submitted by SleepySmile
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