"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.
They tried their best to drag Him out
Of a courthouse down in Montgomery
And now they wanna kick Him out of school
And take Him off our money
They can take those words off of paper and stone
But He ain't gone, no
He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
She stayed mad at Him for a lot of years
For takin' Her husband
Started losin' Her faith and thinkin' that, her life meant nothin'
But when she looks at those kids she raised all by herself
She knows she had some help, yeah, she knows
He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
No matter what you do
No matter where you go
He's always right there
With you
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
No, no
(He ain't the leavin', He ain't the leavin' kind)
He ain't the leavin' (He ain't the leavin')
He ain't the leavin' kind (He ain't the leavin' kind)
Ooh-ooh
(He ain't the leavin', He ain't the leavin' kind)
He ain't the leavin' kind
Of a courthouse down in Montgomery
And now they wanna kick Him out of school
And take Him off our money
They can take those words off of paper and stone
But He ain't gone, no
He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
She stayed mad at Him for a lot of years
For takin' Her husband
Started losin' Her faith and thinkin' that, her life meant nothin'
But when she looks at those kids she raised all by herself
She knows she had some help, yeah, she knows
He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
No matter what you do
No matter where you go
He's always right there
With you
Even from those who don't believe
And wanna leave Him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind
No, no
(He ain't the leavin', He ain't the leavin' kind)
He ain't the leavin' (He ain't the leavin')
He ain't the leavin' kind (He ain't the leavin' kind)
Ooh-ooh
(He ain't the leavin', He ain't the leavin' kind)
He ain't the leavin' kind
Lyrics submitted by queenvictoria_14
He Ain't the Leavin' Kind Lyrics as written by Neil Thrasher Michael William Dulaney
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i love this song..... soo sweet to make a song fer God.. im a christian .. n i heard their whole album... all of the songs rox! way 2 go rascals!!! u never stop amazin ppl wit ur songs.
wow you guys are pretty good... i'm seeing the whole god thing :D so basically... this songs a metaphor??
this song is completely about God, it took me a while to understand it though. the first line is talking about how the Ten Commandments had to be taken out of that courthouse in alabama a while back, when its talking about school it means that kids cant pray in school anymore, and the money thing is when they were trying to take "In God We Trust" off of the coins, and in the bridge it is saying that "no matter what you do, no matter where you go He's always right there with you" which is so true
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I'm pretty sure the second part is about God. But first verse doesn't really make sense to me, who's it talking about? I still love this song. What do you guys think?
@queenvictoria_14<br /> The first verse is about God as well. <br /> There is no praying in American public schools and "In God We Trust" is on all American currency. "out of schools" "off our money"
The entire song is about God. The chorus clued me into it, but the more I looked at it, I realized the whole thing is. In the first verse, the courthouse in Montgomery refers to this decision (cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/27/ten.commandments/); kicking 'him' out of school I assume refers to the general hesitation to refer to religion in the public school environment; the money - "In God We Trust"; and the removal of 'words' - perhaps the slight change of wording in the Pledge of Allegiance?
The entire song is about God. The chorus clued me into it, but the more I looked at it, I realized the whole thing is. In the first verse, the courthouse in Montgomery refers to this decision (cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/27/ten.commandments/); kicking 'him' out of school I assume refers to the general hesitation to refer to religion in the public school environment; the money - "In God We Trust"; and the removal of 'words' - perhaps the slight change of wording in the Pledge of Allegiance?
mnsdq. the "words" are the words on the dollar bills and the stones of the ten commandments sculpture. To take those words off paper and stone would be to take him off the dollar and the sculpture
but yeah
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Yeah, it took me a while to figure it out too, but the second verse clued me in. I didn't get the first verse til now, but I figured it had something to do with not wanting religion shoved down the throats of kids at school
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