"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.
There's a little bit of springtime in the back of my mind
Remembers when there was a time when we danced and we laughed
Spent some time drinking wine
And some where in there is a little (?)
Without a doubt that with every cloud, a silver line is worn
And everything is new
And everything is clean
And everything is free
And there were still so many things to see
So many things
So many things left to be
One small drop in the middle of a big sea
Of high and mighty things
Fascination grows larger than life
Your brand new appetite
As though we'd inventived it
And we dance
There's a little but of spring time in the back of mind
Remembers things perhaps as they should have been
Rather than the lies, rather than the cruelty
That sometimes we were guilty of
As everybody knows, we were only young
And really couldn't have known
We were very young
But its nice to know that there's a place to go
There's still so many things left to say
You're a drop in the middle of a big sea
Of high and mighty things
Your facsination grows larger than life
Your brand new appetite
And that spring time in my mind and I'll try to be alive (?)
As though we'd invented it
And we danced
It could be the longest time
And I'll remember it
We don't know what's in store
When we laugh
Remembers when there was a time when we danced and we laughed
Spent some time drinking wine
And some where in there is a little (?)
Without a doubt that with every cloud, a silver line is worn
And everything is new
And everything is clean
And everything is free
And there were still so many things to see
So many things
So many things left to be
One small drop in the middle of a big sea
Of high and mighty things
Fascination grows larger than life
Your brand new appetite
As though we'd inventived it
And we dance
There's a little but of spring time in the back of mind
Remembers things perhaps as they should have been
Rather than the lies, rather than the cruelty
That sometimes we were guilty of
As everybody knows, we were only young
And really couldn't have known
We were very young
But its nice to know that there's a place to go
There's still so many things left to say
You're a drop in the middle of a big sea
Of high and mighty things
Your facsination grows larger than life
Your brand new appetite
And that spring time in my mind and I'll try to be alive (?)
As though we'd invented it
And we danced
It could be the longest time
And I'll remember it
We don't know what's in store
When we laugh
Lyrics submitted by brokendogleg
Springtime Lyrics as written by Stubbs Hammond
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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