"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.
you’ve a cats tongue
so you say and all
like it won’t do
no it won’t suit
it’s too hard
take it back love
bring me something
that’s cool to the touch
make it ice cold, bring it ice cold
for us
the devil’s only half the thing
the real hard part is remembering
call the doctor
say the pills went down
found a new home
under water - under ground
who needs blazes
when this blackness
could burn us alive
cuts and bruises
over lonesome
anytime
see, my kittens come whenever I call them
they sit pensive - pale at my command
‘cause I teach with sweets and scold with diamonds
and they’re spoiled rotten
every one of them
there are 1, 2, ways that this could go
so you say and all
like it won’t do
no it won’t suit
it’s too hard
take it back love
bring me something
that’s cool to the touch
make it ice cold, bring it ice cold
for us
the devil’s only half the thing
the real hard part is remembering
call the doctor
say the pills went down
found a new home
under water - under ground
who needs blazes
when this blackness
could burn us alive
cuts and bruises
over lonesome
anytime
see, my kittens come whenever I call them
they sit pensive - pale at my command
‘cause I teach with sweets and scold with diamonds
and they’re spoiled rotten
every one of them
there are 1, 2, ways that this could go
Lyrics submitted by macy33
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