"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.
Ready right now, Ready right now
Ready right now, Ready right now
We people who are darker than blue
Are we gonna stand around this town
And let what others say come true
Are we just good for nothing so them figure
Worthless shifless nigga's
We can hardly stand for that
Or is that where its really at?
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I hope you don't mind
If I tell the whole story
Ready right now, Ready right now
Ready right now , Are you ready right now
We people who are darker than blue
There's no time for segregation
I'm talking 'bout brown and yellow too
High yellow gal can you tell
Your just a surface of our deep well
If your mind can really see
You know your colour is the same as me.
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I know you won't mind
If I tell the whole story
Are you ready Right now
Are you ready right now
Arh! yeh! arh!
Are you ready?
Ready â?? Oh now now
Dry your weeping eyes
'Cause we are on the rise
Head up to the sky
Keep your eyes upon prize
Jah Jah is the power and the glory
Giving us a brand new story
No mek tribal war destroys we
Let's bring about some unity.
Yeah, Yeah!
We People of African blue
It's now time to seize the land
That's been long time overdue
Politician 'pon a mission
They conjuring up corruption
So long we've been denied
And were just not satisfied
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I know that I know you won't mind
If I tell the whole story
Ready right now
Ready right now
Are you ready right now
Are you ready right now
In a Zimbabwe,Mozambique and South Africa
Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast and Liberia oh yeah
Ready right now
Ready right now, Ready right now
We people who are darker than blue
Are we gonna stand around this town
And let what others say come true
Are we just good for nothing so them figure
Worthless shifless nigga's
We can hardly stand for that
Or is that where its really at?
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I hope you don't mind
If I tell the whole story
Ready right now, Ready right now
Ready right now , Are you ready right now
We people who are darker than blue
There's no time for segregation
I'm talking 'bout brown and yellow too
High yellow gal can you tell
Your just a surface of our deep well
If your mind can really see
You know your colour is the same as me.
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I know you won't mind
If I tell the whole story
Are you ready Right now
Are you ready right now
Arh! yeh! arh!
Are you ready?
Ready â?? Oh now now
Dry your weeping eyes
'Cause we are on the rise
Head up to the sky
Keep your eyes upon prize
Jah Jah is the power and the glory
Giving us a brand new story
No mek tribal war destroys we
Let's bring about some unity.
Yeah, Yeah!
We People of African blue
It's now time to seize the land
That's been long time overdue
Politician 'pon a mission
They conjuring up corruption
So long we've been denied
And were just not satisfied
Well, pardon me brother
As you stand in your glory
I know that I know you won't mind
If I tell the whole story
Ready right now
Ready right now
Are you ready right now
Are you ready right now
In a Zimbabwe,Mozambique and South Africa
Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast and Liberia oh yeah
Ready right now
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER17106149
Darker Than Blue Lyrics as written by David Robert Hinds
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