"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.
Sometimes I wonder how I'm goin' to pay the rent
All I do is work my fingers to the bone
No time to rest, no doubt I think I'm a fool
I used to think I couldn't get out of this
Stuck in a race car out of control
Man I was doin' 'bout 105, then I met you
And then I blinked
Oh yeah taught me to think
I owe it all to you
My my rain
You got me singin' along to the radio
You nailed my brain
I call you Saint Lorraine
You put out the trash, cleaned up my living room
Took me to bed, now I'll never be the same
Brought out the man that must have been hidin'
Yeah there's two kinds of lovers
One that takes and one that gives
Sometimes I shudder thinkin' how I've been used
I found my rhythm, you'll never catch me singing no blues
Oh no
Sometimes I think 'bout how you caught me with a wink
I give it all to you
My my rain, you got me rockin' along
I'll never let you go
You took my pain
I call you Saint Lorraine
Yes I do, yes I do
Oh then you caught me with a wink
I'll never let you go
I, I, I, oh I'm rockin' all night long
Sometimes I wonder how I'm going to pay the rent
I used to think I'll never get out of this
And then I blinked and you took me out of that
Thank you very much Lorraine
You got me rockin' along
I'll never let you go
You took my pain
I call you Saint Lorraine
All I do is work my fingers to the bone
No time to rest, no doubt I think I'm a fool
I used to think I couldn't get out of this
Stuck in a race car out of control
Man I was doin' 'bout 105, then I met you
And then I blinked
Oh yeah taught me to think
I owe it all to you
My my rain
You got me singin' along to the radio
You nailed my brain
I call you Saint Lorraine
You put out the trash, cleaned up my living room
Took me to bed, now I'll never be the same
Brought out the man that must have been hidin'
Yeah there's two kinds of lovers
One that takes and one that gives
Sometimes I shudder thinkin' how I've been used
I found my rhythm, you'll never catch me singing no blues
Oh no
Sometimes I think 'bout how you caught me with a wink
I give it all to you
My my rain, you got me rockin' along
I'll never let you go
You took my pain
I call you Saint Lorraine
Yes I do, yes I do
Oh then you caught me with a wink
I'll never let you go
I, I, I, oh I'm rockin' all night long
Sometimes I wonder how I'm going to pay the rent
I used to think I'll never get out of this
And then I blinked and you took me out of that
Thank you very much Lorraine
You got me rockin' along
I'll never let you go
You took my pain
I call you Saint Lorraine
Lyrics submitted by mmcambells
Saint Lorraine Lyrics as written by Jack Russell Jack Blades
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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