"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.
Jane was a rose born with golden feet
Sworn to the stars as a modern queen
Trained by the finest there was around
Jane had a lot to let down
A thousand miles is way too fast
We've gone too far
We're getting fat
One thousand miles is way too fast
We've gone too far
We're fat
Jane had a way with boys of gold
Now she is waiting for a good boy
One more day he is coming back
Jane has a lot on her back
Thousand miles is way too fast
We run all day
we're getting fat
One thousand miles is way too fast
We run all day
We're getting fat
One by one we'll go to sleep
And everybody's gonna be in love [3x]
Sworn to the stars as a modern queen
Trained by the finest there was around
Jane had a lot to let down
A thousand miles is way too fast
We've gone too far
We're getting fat
One thousand miles is way too fast
We've gone too far
We're fat
Jane had a way with boys of gold
Now she is waiting for a good boy
One more day he is coming back
Jane has a lot on her back
Thousand miles is way too fast
We run all day
we're getting fat
One thousand miles is way too fast
We run all day
We're getting fat
One by one we'll go to sleep
And everybody's gonna be in love [3x]
Lyrics submitted by laurentertaining
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Corrections:
"Jane was a rose born with golden feet Sworn to the stars as a modern queen Trained by the finest there was around Jane had a lot to let down
A thousand miles is way too fast We've gone too far We're getting fat One thousand miles is way too fast We've gone too far We're fat
Jane had a way with boys of gold Now she is waiting for a good boy One more day he is coming back Jane has a lot on her back
Thousand miles is way too fast We run all day we're getting fat One thousand miles is way too fast We run all day We're getting fat
One by one we'll go to sleep And everybody's gonna be in love [3x]"
i have no idea what this chorus means.
what's to get?
we're all fat.
Just a couple word adjustments...
Jane was a rose born with golden feet Sworn to the stars as a modern queen Tamed by the finest there was around Jane had a lot to let down
A thousand miles is way too fast we've gone too far we're getting fat One thousand miles is way too fast we've gone too far We're fat
Jane had a way with boys of gold Now she is waiting for a good boy One more day he's coming back Jane has a lot on her back *(sometimes i think it sounds like "lump on her back", i don't know, ha.)
A thousand miles is way too fast We've one more day we're getting fat One thousand miles is way too fast We run all day We're getting fat
One by one we'll go to sleep and everybody's gonna be in love [3x]
Wants.
It's just a pet peeve of mine but just please post the only lines you think are wrong w/ corrections instead of posting the whole derned thing all over again.