"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.
When I woke up tonight I said I'm
Gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know
Now I know
Now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Well he's a friend and he's so proud of you
He's a friend and I knew him before you, oh yeah
Well, he's a friend and we're so proud of you
Your famous friend and I blew him before you, oh yeah
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Here we are at the Transmission party
I love your friends, they're all so arty, oh yeah
Oh, when I woke up tonight I said I'm
Gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know
Now I know
Now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Oh lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Oh lucky, lucky
You're so lucky, yeah
Gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know
Now I know
Now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Well he's a friend and he's so proud of you
He's a friend and I knew him before you, oh yeah
Well, he's a friend and we're so proud of you
Your famous friend and I blew him before you, oh yeah
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Here we are at the Transmission party
I love your friends, they're all so arty, oh yeah
Oh, when I woke up tonight I said I'm
Gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know
Now I know
Now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna
Well, do ya
Do ya, do ya wanna, wanna go
Where I'd never let you before
Oh lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Lucky, lucky
You're so lucky
Oh lucky, lucky
You're so lucky, yeah
Lyrics submitted by CrashBangOuch
Do You Want To Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Mccarthy Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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