"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.
Give me your tired
Give me you poor
Yearning to be free
Yeah your hungry huddled masses screaming me!me!me!
Give me danger
Give me sorrow
Give me heat
Give me grime
Give me give me empathy
C'mon give me from behind
Throw me up against the wall
No baby do that again
No baby I'll do you 'cause you,you,you, you'll do anything.
Give me white boys skinny
Give me big black men
Give me ice cream on my birthday
Oh give me that again
Give me love love love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
Give me dick
Give me speed
Give me white hot hate
One day my prince will come
But man, it's just to late
Give me one match so I can set myself on fire
Let them eat coke until they all starve
Give me one light that pulls down on me so hard
Twist it like a miracle
Blast your heart to shards
Throw me up against the wall
No baby do that again
No baby I'll do you 'cause you,you,you, you'll do anything.
Give me white boys skinny
Give me big black men
Give me ice cream on my birthday
Oh give me that again
Give me love love love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
Give me some last solutions
Give it to your hand
Give it to me
C'mon baby give me and pray
You're a star
It's your show
I got the power to heal
God or the devil just give me a deal
Give me love,love,love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
No, I'm to young to be this old
Slam the door when you go
I'll burn the sheets when you go
Just fucking go
Give me you poor
Yearning to be free
Yeah your hungry huddled masses screaming me!me!me!
Give me danger
Give me sorrow
Give me heat
Give me grime
Give me give me empathy
C'mon give me from behind
Throw me up against the wall
No baby do that again
No baby I'll do you 'cause you,you,you, you'll do anything.
Give me white boys skinny
Give me big black men
Give me ice cream on my birthday
Oh give me that again
Give me love love love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
Give me dick
Give me speed
Give me white hot hate
One day my prince will come
But man, it's just to late
Give me one match so I can set myself on fire
Let them eat coke until they all starve
Give me one light that pulls down on me so hard
Twist it like a miracle
Blast your heart to shards
Throw me up against the wall
No baby do that again
No baby I'll do you 'cause you,you,you, you'll do anything.
Give me white boys skinny
Give me big black men
Give me ice cream on my birthday
Oh give me that again
Give me love love love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
Give me some last solutions
Give it to your hand
Give it to me
C'mon baby give me and pray
You're a star
It's your show
I got the power to heal
God or the devil just give me a deal
Give me love,love,love
Give me me me
'Cause I will do you 'cause you'll do anything
No, I'm to young to be this old
Slam the door when you go
I'll burn the sheets when you go
Just fucking go
Lyrics submitted by almostmanda
I'll Do Anything Lyrics as written by Love Best
Lyrics © TEAMJBTUNZ, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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