"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.
Never gonna be in movies
Except in a front row seat
Never gonna be the raving beauty
My momma thought I'd be
Never gonna write that novel
Never be a homecoming queen
Never gonna be a supermodel
On the cover of a magazine
But all these things don't matter in the light of things to come
'Cause, baby, you are my moon and I am your sun, oh
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like a star
Maybe I'm not the girl next door
Who waves at you and smiles
Maybe I'm not a centerfold
But don't I drive you wild?
Baby, the way you see me
Is the way that it should be
Feelin' like I'm something special
Seven days a week
And the only thing that matters when the day is done
Is that you are my moon and I am your sun, oh
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like
Everyday's my birthday
Every night's a dream
Oh, and when you kiss me
I melt just like ice cream
Never gonna be a Charlie's Angel
Never gonna be a saint
But you love me for all I am
And everything I ain't
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like a star
You make me feel like a star
Shinin' bright in your eyes
And I'll always be your life
Shinin' bright in your eyes
And I'll always be your light
You make me feel like a star
Except in a front row seat
Never gonna be the raving beauty
My momma thought I'd be
Never gonna write that novel
Never be a homecoming queen
Never gonna be a supermodel
On the cover of a magazine
But all these things don't matter in the light of things to come
'Cause, baby, you are my moon and I am your sun, oh
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like a star
Maybe I'm not the girl next door
Who waves at you and smiles
Maybe I'm not a centerfold
But don't I drive you wild?
Baby, the way you see me
Is the way that it should be
Feelin' like I'm something special
Seven days a week
And the only thing that matters when the day is done
Is that you are my moon and I am your sun, oh
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like
Everyday's my birthday
Every night's a dream
Oh, and when you kiss me
I melt just like ice cream
Never gonna be a Charlie's Angel
Never gonna be a saint
But you love me for all I am
And everything I ain't
You make me feel like a star, oh baby
You say, stay, baby, stay
Just the way you are
And tell me, girl, you're fine
And you will shine
Forever in my heart
That's why you, yeah, you
You make me feel like a star
You make me feel like a star
Shinin' bright in your eyes
And I'll always be your life
Shinin' bright in your eyes
And I'll always be your light
You make me feel like a star
Lyrics submitted by tigereyes8809
You Make Me Feel Like a Star Lyrics as written by Candice Beu Shelly Peiken
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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