"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.
I'm gon' find me a woman that's real
I'm gon' find me a woman that's strong
I'm gon' find me a woman that's oh so true
I got a pedestal to put her on
I found me a girl, she's sweet as good be
And everything in her world revolved all around me
I had a chance to make her mine but I was too blind to see
And now I got to let her go and pray she comes back to me
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I'm gon' find me a woman that's young
I'm gon' find me a woman that's pretty
I'm gon' find me a woman that swears I'm the one
And I'm a try not to treat her shitty
Girl I been drinkin' ever since you've been gone
And I been thinkin' maybe that I was wrong
You been holdin' out for way too long
I get this feeling you don't want to belong
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I'm gon' find me a woman that's tough
I'm gon' find me a woman that's loyal
I'm gon' find me a woman that say she got enough
And that's one I'm gonna spoilt
Well I've been waitin' such a very long time
My heart's gon' break girl if I don't make you mine
What's past is past, what's done I cannot rewind
All said and done girl, so you're one of a kind
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I'm gon' find me a woman that's strong
I'm gon' find me a woman that's oh so true
I got a pedestal to put her on
I found me a girl, she's sweet as good be
And everything in her world revolved all around me
I had a chance to make her mine but I was too blind to see
And now I got to let her go and pray she comes back to me
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I'm gon' find me a woman that's young
I'm gon' find me a woman that's pretty
I'm gon' find me a woman that swears I'm the one
And I'm a try not to treat her shitty
Girl I been drinkin' ever since you've been gone
And I been thinkin' maybe that I was wrong
You been holdin' out for way too long
I get this feeling you don't want to belong
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I'm gon' find me a woman that's tough
I'm gon' find me a woman that's loyal
I'm gon' find me a woman that say she got enough
And that's one I'm gonna spoilt
Well I've been waitin' such a very long time
My heart's gon' break girl if I don't make you mine
What's past is past, what's done I cannot rewind
All said and done girl, so you're one of a kind
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
I hater her cause I love her so I hurt her again
Don't want no other lover, won't go through it again
She's my angel, she's my lover, she's my very best friend
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