"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.
I want to confess
All theses thoughts that I`ve been thinking
Get it off my chest
After just one kiss I`m sinking
I know that you want me
You know I do
Don't try to read my mind
Pay attention to my body language
It`s a wild guess what we`ll do next
Gonna rock gonna roll oh we won`t rest
It`s no wild guess what we`ll do next
Yes you can play I can tease have you begging on your knees
Yes I will... on your knees
I can feel your breath
Down my neck my heart is racing
It ain`t no dream
It`s your touch that I`ve been chasing
I know that you want me
You know I do
Don`t try to read my mind
Pay attention to my body language
It`s a wild guess what we`ll do next
Gonna rock gonna roll oh we won`t rest
It`s no wild guess what we`ll do next
Yes you can play I can tease have you begging on your knees
Yes I will... on your knees
Oh did you ever think that everything would change
Just by walking in the room
Did you ever think the one you wanted
Really wants you too
Did you
Let`s get out of here
I`ve got to get out of this stress
All theses thoughts that I`ve been thinking
Get it off my chest
After just one kiss I`m sinking
I know that you want me
You know I do
Don't try to read my mind
Pay attention to my body language
It`s a wild guess what we`ll do next
Gonna rock gonna roll oh we won`t rest
It`s no wild guess what we`ll do next
Yes you can play I can tease have you begging on your knees
Yes I will... on your knees
I can feel your breath
Down my neck my heart is racing
It ain`t no dream
It`s your touch that I`ve been chasing
I know that you want me
You know I do
Don`t try to read my mind
Pay attention to my body language
It`s a wild guess what we`ll do next
Gonna rock gonna roll oh we won`t rest
It`s no wild guess what we`ll do next
Yes you can play I can tease have you begging on your knees
Yes I will... on your knees
Oh did you ever think that everything would change
Just by walking in the room
Did you ever think the one you wanted
Really wants you too
Did you
Let`s get out of here
I`ve got to get out of this stress
Lyrics submitted by xox_pandie_xox
Wild Guess Lyrics as written by Johnny Mosegaard Pedersen Jeanette Margareta Olsson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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