"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.
Chorus:
She wakes up and takes up her surfboard heads out out from the seashore and from the world in where she lives. She's got no fears or worries at all right there just the smell of salt water that's in the air and the sunrise.
She's walking on water, she's walking on water
Verse 1:
Imagine waking up no knowing if today is your last one tell me what would you say if you had somebody tell you that you're young but youre dying which is weird cuz you feel so alive and she has a dream to be queen of the ocean mad emotion showing her devotion on her surfboard fully in motion hoping for a miracle whn her eyes first open.
(Chorus)
Verse 2:
Face up toes in the sand surfah girl gave up trying to understand why some get to live and other have to die she's tired of goodbyes cuz they make her cry lookin in the sky blues as her eyes watchin the rising of the sun well how time flies when you're outside and your in love and your'e havin fun remember all the days when she was layin down on the sand with her fam and she had a plan bam to wake up at the daylight watch her rise like the sun on the run from the night sunrise feels so alive when she...
(Chorus)
Sunrise. From the world in where she lives...sunrise
From the world in where she lives...
She wakes up and takes up her surfboard heads out out from the seashore and from the world in where she lives. She's got no fears or worries at all right there just the smell of salt water that's in the air and the sunrise.
She's walking on water, she's walking on water
Verse 1:
Imagine waking up no knowing if today is your last one tell me what would you say if you had somebody tell you that you're young but youre dying which is weird cuz you feel so alive and she has a dream to be queen of the ocean mad emotion showing her devotion on her surfboard fully in motion hoping for a miracle whn her eyes first open.
(Chorus)
Verse 2:
Face up toes in the sand surfah girl gave up trying to understand why some get to live and other have to die she's tired of goodbyes cuz they make her cry lookin in the sky blues as her eyes watchin the rising of the sun well how time flies when you're outside and your in love and your'e havin fun remember all the days when she was layin down on the sand with her fam and she had a plan bam to wake up at the daylight watch her rise like the sun on the run from the night sunrise feels so alive when she...
(Chorus)
Sunrise. From the world in where she lives...sunrise
From the world in where she lives...
Lyrics submitted by BassicChick
Walking on Water (Surfah Girl) Lyrics as written by Paul Wright Christopher E. Stevens
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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