"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.
It's so hot in here
Oh, it's so hot and I need some air
Oh boy, don't stop 'cause I'm halfway there
It's not complicated, we're just syncopated
We can read each others minds
One love united two bodies synchronizing
Don't even need to touch me baby, just
Breathe on me, yeah, oh
Baby just, breathe on me
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe, oh, yeah
Oh, this is way beyond the physical
(It's a way beyond the physical)
Tonight, my senses don't make sense at all
Our imagination, taking us to places
We have never been before take me in, let it out
Don't even need to touch me baby, just
Breathe on me, yeah, oh baby
Just, breathe on me
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe (breathe) on, (on) me,(me), oh baby
Just, breathe (breathe) on, (on) me, (me)
We don't need to touch, just breathe
Monogamy is the way to go
Just put your lips together and blow
Breathe, breathe, oh
Breathe on me (oh, oh) oh
Baby just, breathe on me (on me)
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe (breathe) on (on) me, (me) oh
Baby just, breathe (breathe) on, (on) me, (me)
We don't need to touch, just
Oh, it's so hot and I need some air
Oh boy, don't stop 'cause I'm halfway there
It's not complicated, we're just syncopated
We can read each others minds
One love united two bodies synchronizing
Don't even need to touch me baby, just
Breathe on me, yeah, oh
Baby just, breathe on me
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe, oh, yeah
Oh, this is way beyond the physical
(It's a way beyond the physical)
Tonight, my senses don't make sense at all
Our imagination, taking us to places
We have never been before take me in, let it out
Don't even need to touch me baby, just
Breathe on me, yeah, oh baby
Just, breathe on me
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe (breathe) on, (on) me,(me), oh baby
Just, breathe (breathe) on, (on) me, (me)
We don't need to touch, just breathe
Monogamy is the way to go
Just put your lips together and blow
Breathe, breathe, oh
Breathe on me (oh, oh) oh
Baby just, breathe on me (on me)
We don't need to touch, just
Breathe (breathe) on (on) me, (me) oh
Baby just, breathe (breathe) on, (on) me, (me)
We don't need to touch, just
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Breathe on Me [Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Dike Mix] Lyrics as written by Stephen William Lee Lisa Greene
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Guess what, kiddies, Britney added a subtext right under your noses.
I kept wondering about that line 'monogamy is the way to go, just put your lips together and blow' and I realized that she is talking about infidelity. The reason they must only breathe and not touch. Cause then it's not technically cheating. Way to be slick and ahem..get off on a technicality, pun intended.
Honestly, I thought this song was about rolling on ecstasy.
Cool song, not really a Brittney Spears fan, but this song is real nice.
i think its about a guy and a girl in bed but not touching each other...you know like in 40days and 40 nights where he has like some weird blowing sex thing with that girl?...god that was a crap movie!
jesus i love this song. I went to here Onyx tour and this scene was mind blowing. Girl on guy action, guy on guy action, and girl on girl action. I loved every minute of it. It was so sexual that I was mezmerized. Anyone would love it.
Expect for the young girl and her mother next to me.
haha, fuckin a
I just wanna bone her!
I think this is one of the best songs I've heard in a loonnng time. I don't know what it is about it that makes its great, it's like a sexual tension song or something and that's hot.
this song is about having sex
May sences dont make sence at all (Probably drunk)
Take me in (take me into the bedroom)
Let it out (liet his 'thing' out)
SHES A SLUT
"Monogamy is the way to go Just put your lips together and blow"
YES, the song is about sex. ALL her songs are about sex, if analysed enough. I don't see why y'all think it's some huge revelation to point a bony finger (heh, take that how you will) and say "SLUT!!"
It`s about sexual tension... like when you meet someone in a party..and you both just wanna fuck almost inmediately ......