"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.
Why did my sweetie leave me?
Why did we have to part?
You know, no other sweetie can relieve me
Of this aching heart
Why can't I have the sunshine?
The sunshine instead of gloom?
Why must I have these little shadows
Creeping in my room?
When the night is dark and peaceful
Loving hearts are all in tune
There's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
When the little birds are nesting
And I listen to them croon
There are two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
While I lie there counting sheep
Through my window he comes to peep
And with each other we're sympathizing!
Oh, I'm looking at those happy people
While they sit around and spoon
There's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
Oh, but if my sweetie keeps me waiting
You know what I'm gonna do? I'll get another sweetie, soon
Because there's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
Oh, how I miss his ukulele
And the way he strums those tunes
'Cause there's two lonesome people in the whole wide world,
It's me and the man and the moon
When the creepy shadows fall
And the boogie man comes to call
I need two lovable arms around me!
You know, and if my sweetie keeps me waiting
You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a big balloon, a big one
And I'll travel through the air in that big balloon and have a love affair
With the man in the moon!
Why did we have to part?
You know, no other sweetie can relieve me
Of this aching heart
Why can't I have the sunshine?
The sunshine instead of gloom?
Why must I have these little shadows
Creeping in my room?
When the night is dark and peaceful
Loving hearts are all in tune
There's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
When the little birds are nesting
And I listen to them croon
There are two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
While I lie there counting sheep
Through my window he comes to peep
And with each other we're sympathizing!
Oh, I'm looking at those happy people
While they sit around and spoon
There's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
Oh, but if my sweetie keeps me waiting
You know what I'm gonna do? I'll get another sweetie, soon
Because there's two lonesome people in the whole wide world
It's me and the man and the moon
Oh, how I miss his ukulele
And the way he strums those tunes
'Cause there's two lonesome people in the whole wide world,
It's me and the man and the moon
When the creepy shadows fall
And the boogie man comes to call
I need two lovable arms around me!
You know, and if my sweetie keeps me waiting
You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a big balloon, a big one
And I'll travel through the air in that big balloon and have a love affair
With the man in the moon!
Lyrics submitted by sillybunny
Me and the Man in the Moon Lyrics as written by James V. Monaco Edgar Leslie
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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