"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.
Only a fool to stick by your side
Struck by your change of heart
Straight into your arms
Like a newborn child
Straight into those open arms
I'm only a fool to stick by your side
Struck by your change of heart
Every day and every night
Try as I might
You're my black and you're my white
I've got eyes on you
Like you want me to
So I creep by your side no great surprise
All for your sweet surrender
The morning stands still
Won't let me in
And nobody hears me try
I need you, I need you
Oh I need you
Like I need salt in my water-
Salt in my wounds ,but I stay
'cause I'm only a fool
To stick by your side
Struck by that changing heart
Straight into your arms,
Your broken arms
Straight into your open arms,
I never look behind
'cause I'm only a fool,
I'm only a fool
Struck by your change of heart
Straight into your arms
Like a newborn child
Straight into those open arms
I'm only a fool to stick by your side
Struck by your change of heart
Every day and every night
Try as I might
You're my black and you're my white
I've got eyes on you
Like you want me to
So I creep by your side no great surprise
All for your sweet surrender
The morning stands still
Won't let me in
And nobody hears me try
I need you, I need you
Oh I need you
Like I need salt in my water-
Salt in my wounds ,but I stay
'cause I'm only a fool
To stick by your side
Struck by that changing heart
Straight into your arms,
Your broken arms
Straight into your open arms,
I never look behind
'cause I'm only a fool,
I'm only a fool
Lyrics submitted by southboundpachyderm
Only a Fool Lyrics as written by Cerys Elizabeth Phillips Matthews
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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