"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.
So what it's not what you would want (?) what you want oh want you most of you would settle for sex don't you ever think that we could not talk that we could that we can that we can only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost you're sexy in my jeans baby you're sexy in my jeans tell me do do you want me do you? 'cause I want you too it dogs it dogs every second every moment won't you tell me that you're mine won't you tell me that you're mine only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost only when you're alone do you... maybe if we tried we could go for miles underneath the ground and sea underneath the ground and sea fight! no! fight! only if they want you to only if you call me call me call me call me only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost only when you're alone do you think about what you had and lost
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Sex (I'm a Lesbian) Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson Levi Jr. Seacer
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