"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.
(Dream girl, dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
I'm living in, the dream world that you made
Every night
Everything made of sweets and pride
I feel so lonely like a blue bird in a cage
Hard to see, dear, your mom's anger
Floating on water, hard to clear
Walking on eggshells for a long time
To find your bliss, in your mind
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you
My dream is to give, what I am to you
I know your enemy
I'm a refugee of your mind
I find it underneath your soul
Tell me why, I don't feel alright
Show me your pain, and take my chain
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
I got a postcard from the edge, a princess
What a sledge to be like her mess
Express life, inner strife
All the girls signing and dissatisfying
Hollywood, you know no go
High or low, like a blow or snow
You lost in the wood, oh childhood dream?
The best laid schemes of mice and men
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you
My dream is to give, what I am to you
If you want me as your dream girl (If you want me as your)
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you (If you want me as your dream girl)
My dream is to give, what I am to you
You won't get my love
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, you won't get my love
You won't get my love, get my love, get my
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
(Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
I'm living in, the dream world that you made
Every night
Everything made of sweets and pride
I feel so lonely like a blue bird in a cage
Hard to see, dear, your mom's anger
Floating on water, hard to clear
Walking on eggshells for a long time
To find your bliss, in your mind
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you
My dream is to give, what I am to you
I know your enemy
I'm a refugee of your mind
I find it underneath your soul
Tell me why, I don't feel alright
Show me your pain, and take my chain
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
I got a postcard from the edge, a princess
What a sledge to be like her mess
Express life, inner strife
All the girls signing and dissatisfying
Hollywood, you know no go
High or low, like a blow or snow
You lost in the wood, oh childhood dream?
The best laid schemes of mice and men
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you
My dream is to give, what I am to you
If you want me as your dream girl (If you want me as your)
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
Like a normal girl next to you (If you want me as your dream girl)
My dream is to give, what I am to you
You won't get my love
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, I can't be next to you
If you want me as your dream girl
You won't get my love, you won't get my love
You won't get my love, get my love, get my
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world (Dream girl)
(Dream girl, dream girl)
You make me feel like I know myself
(Dream girl, dream girl)
Lift me away, out of this world
(Dream girl)
Lyrics submitted by playgroundlove
Dream Girl Lyrics as written by Miho Hatori David Anthony Trumfio
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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