"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.
(My sexy love)
(So sexy)
Hmm, hmm
She makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Just one touch and I erupt
Like a volcano and cover her with my love
Baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh)
And I just can't think (of anything else I'd rather do)
Than to hear you sing (sing my name the way you do)
Oh, when we do our thing (when we do the things we do)
Mmm baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh) ooh
Sexy love
Girl, the things you do (oh, baby baby)
Keep me sprung
Keep me running back to you (ooh, baby I)
Ooh, I love
Making love to you
Baby girl, you know your my
Sexy love
I'm so addicted to her
She's the sweetest drug, huh
Just enough, still too much
Say that I'm slippin, I'm sprung on all the above
I can't help she makes me say (ooh ooh ooh) Hey
And I just can't think, ooh (of anything else I'd rather do)
Than to hear you sing (sing my name the way you do)
Baby, when we do our thing (when we do the things we do)
Oh baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh)
My sexy love
Sexy love (hey, hey)
Girl, the things you do (oh, baby baby)
Keep me sprung (ooh oh)
Keep me running back to you (ooh, baby I)
Ooh, I love (oh oh)
Making love to you (see baby girl, you know your my)
Sexy love
Oh baby, what we doin' makes the sun come up
Keep on lovin' 'til it goes back down
And I don't know what I'd do if I would lose your touch
That's why I'm always keepin' you around
My sexy love
Sexy love (oh oh)
Girl, the things you do (things you do)
Keep (baby) me sprung (ooh)
Keep me running back to you (keep me running back to you)
Ooh, I love (I love)
Making love to you
Said, baby girl, you know your my
Sexy love (sexy love)
Sexy love
Girl, the things you do (sexy love)
Keep me sprung (oh ooh)
Keep me running back to you (running back to you)
Ooh, I love (ooh oh)
Making love to you (love to you)
Baby girl, know your my
Sexy love
(My sexy love)
She makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Just one touch
(So sexy)
Hmm, hmm
She makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Just one touch and I erupt
Like a volcano and cover her with my love
Baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh)
And I just can't think (of anything else I'd rather do)
Than to hear you sing (sing my name the way you do)
Oh, when we do our thing (when we do the things we do)
Mmm baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh) ooh
Sexy love
Girl, the things you do (oh, baby baby)
Keep me sprung
Keep me running back to you (ooh, baby I)
Ooh, I love
Making love to you
Baby girl, you know your my
Sexy love
I'm so addicted to her
She's the sweetest drug, huh
Just enough, still too much
Say that I'm slippin, I'm sprung on all the above
I can't help she makes me say (ooh ooh ooh) Hey
And I just can't think, ooh (of anything else I'd rather do)
Than to hear you sing (sing my name the way you do)
Baby, when we do our thing (when we do the things we do)
Oh baby girl, you make me say (ooh ooh ooh)
My sexy love
Sexy love (hey, hey)
Girl, the things you do (oh, baby baby)
Keep me sprung (ooh oh)
Keep me running back to you (ooh, baby I)
Ooh, I love (oh oh)
Making love to you (see baby girl, you know your my)
Sexy love
Oh baby, what we doin' makes the sun come up
Keep on lovin' 'til it goes back down
And I don't know what I'd do if I would lose your touch
That's why I'm always keepin' you around
My sexy love
Sexy love (oh oh)
Girl, the things you do (things you do)
Keep (baby) me sprung (ooh)
Keep me running back to you (keep me running back to you)
Ooh, I love (I love)
Making love to you
Said, baby girl, you know your my
Sexy love (sexy love)
Sexy love
Girl, the things you do (sexy love)
Keep me sprung (oh ooh)
Keep me running back to you (running back to you)
Ooh, I love (ooh oh)
Making love to you (love to you)
Baby girl, know your my
Sexy love
(My sexy love)
She makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Just one touch
Lyrics submitted by sexual-x-touch
Sexy Love Lyrics as written by Tor Erik Hermansen Mikkel Eriksen
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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