"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.
Ooh, music is playing in the darkness
And a lantern goes swinging by
Shadows flickering
My heart's jittering
Just you and I
Not tonight
Come tomorrow
When everything's sunny and bright (sunny and bright)
No no no
Come tomorrow
'Cos then we'll be waiting for the moonlight
We'll go walking in the moonlight
Walking in the moonlight
Ooh, Laughter ringing in the darkness
People drinking for days gone by
Time don't mean a thing
When you're by my side
Please stay a while
Ooh, you know I never could foresee the future years
You know I never could see where life was leading me
But will we be together for ever
What will be my love, can't you see that I just don't know, don't care
No no no not tonight
Come tomorrow
Everything's gonna be sunny and bright
Wait and see
If tomorrow
We'll be as happy as we're feeling tonight
We'll go walking (Oh we'll be, we'll be happy) in the moonlight
Walking in the moonlight
Ooh, I can hear the music in the darkness
Floating softly to where we lie
No more questions now
Let's enjoy tonight
Just you and I
Ooh, just you and I
Mmm, just you and I
Ooh, can't you see that we've gotta be together
Be together just you and I
Just you and I
No more questions
Just you and I
And a lantern goes swinging by
Shadows flickering
My heart's jittering
Just you and I
Not tonight
Come tomorrow
When everything's sunny and bright (sunny and bright)
No no no
Come tomorrow
'Cos then we'll be waiting for the moonlight
We'll go walking in the moonlight
Walking in the moonlight
Ooh, Laughter ringing in the darkness
People drinking for days gone by
Time don't mean a thing
When you're by my side
Please stay a while
Ooh, you know I never could foresee the future years
You know I never could see where life was leading me
But will we be together for ever
What will be my love, can't you see that I just don't know, don't care
No no no not tonight
Come tomorrow
Everything's gonna be sunny and bright
Wait and see
If tomorrow
We'll be as happy as we're feeling tonight
We'll go walking (Oh we'll be, we'll be happy) in the moonlight
Walking in the moonlight
Ooh, I can hear the music in the darkness
Floating softly to where we lie
No more questions now
Let's enjoy tonight
Just you and I
Ooh, just you and I
Mmm, just you and I
Ooh, can't you see that we've gotta be together
Be together just you and I
Just you and I
No more questions
Just you and I
Lyrics submitted by mincepies686
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