"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.
The wind blew some luck in my direction
I caught it in my hands today
I finally made a tricky French connection
You winked and gave me your O.K.
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothing like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
We'll lay back and observe the constellations
And watch the moon smilin' bright
I'll play the radio on southern stations
'Cause southern belles are hell at night
You say you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss
Class of seven-four, gold ring
The eastern moon looks ready for a wet kiss
To make the tide rise again
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
We'll see the sun come up on Sunday morning
And watch it fade the moon away
I guess you know I'm giving you a warning
'Cause me and moon are itching to play
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
I caught it in my hands today
I finally made a tricky French connection
You winked and gave me your O.K.
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothing like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
We'll lay back and observe the constellations
And watch the moon smilin' bright
I'll play the radio on southern stations
'Cause southern belles are hell at night
You say you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss
Class of seven-four, gold ring
The eastern moon looks ready for a wet kiss
To make the tide rise again
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
We'll see the sun come up on Sunday morning
And watch it fade the moon away
I guess you know I'm giving you a warning
'Cause me and moon are itching to play
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
Lyrics submitted by SurfingHobo
Moonlight Feels Right Lyrics as written by Bruce Blackman
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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yeah this song is the coolest. it's so mellow and chill. about feelin right in the moonlight.
What a cool song. I could listen to it non-stop.
"Moonlight Feels Right" is the musical equivalent of a glass of Sprite--fizzy, tangy, and delicious. Everything about it is right, from the relaxed vocals to the upbeat synths to the romantic lyrics. And a marimba solo! Nobody else thought of that in the 70s!
It is, obviously, about a date. But most people seem to think it's set in the South, but it isn't. It's in Baltimore--the Mid-Atlantic. The girl apparently is Southern, so the guy tweaks her a little bit by saying Southern Belles are "hell at night." He's romancing her under the stars by the Chesapeake. We don't know whether she goes for it, but all I can say is...I would.
@law4 Southern Belles are "hell at night" Her,and the southern radio stations he tunes to at the end of the AM hit radio era.
@law4 Southern Belles are "hell at night" She is ,and the southern radio stations he tunes to at the end of the AM hit radio era certainly were. No tweaking. "I see you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss, a class of 74 gold ring." Things used to be way funner way back b4 Obama.
@law4 Southern Belles are "hell at night" She is ,and the southern radio stations he tunes to at the end of the AM hit radio era certainly were. No tweaking. No Twerking. "I see you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss, a class of 74 gold ring." Things used to be way funner way back b4 Obama.
Double entendre. Southern Belles are hell at night, Yes they are, and so were Southern Radio Stations you could pick up in Baltimore, gateway to the south, and especially at the end of the AM hit radio era. Shut UP, MEGS!
A cool, relaxing evening beach breeze of a song, one guaranteed to make us kids smile and kick back when it came on the radio. While our parents drove in the front seat, my brother, sister and I loved hearing this tune's trademark seesawing bass intro start on WQXI-FM. It was a fave of ours on road trip radio, too.
As a kid, I had no idea what the lyrics were about, except that they involved the moon. I was far too entranced with that marimba middle eight: surely the best vibraphone solo performance in pop music history!
Listening to "Moonlight Feels Right" as an adult, I'm both charmed and skeeved by the fact the song is clearly about a booty call - and its protagonist is sleazy. His comeon wouldn't get far with me, a woman.
The lead singer is hard at work trying to seduce a young college girl he met (in a bar likely), and charms her by sounding like he knows about and likes her football team - because yeah, most of us girls are huuuuge football fans - then segues her into his car, drives down chilly-even-in-summer Chesapeake Bay to try to get her panties off on the beach, under the moon. But she's hip: he says she "winked and gave" him her "okay".
Basically the same skeevy pedophilic yacht pop Steely Dan's been so good at recently (witness how 9/10 of their tracks on "Two Against Nature" are about being old guys chasing young - VERY young, as in teen - tail). It's funny though how if these gruesome lechs cloud it in an awesome groove, that makes it alright.
And this song, despite its off-putting, sleaze-factor subject matter, feels right. Just like the moon, eh?
I think you are misinterpreting some of the lyrics. The song came out in 1976...the girl in the song was class of '74 at Ole Miss, so that makes her about 24 years old. Hardly "pedophilic". The guy who wrote the song was about the same age or not too much older at the time. Not sure why you think he "likes her football team".either.
@heatherfer So, she was at least 21 in the song when 18 was the age back then. Guess you never got any. <br /> :The wind blew some luck in my direction<br /> I caught it in my hands today<br /> I finally made a tricky French connection<br /> You winked and gave me your o.k.<br /> <br /> It was a lot more fun way back when.<br /> <br /> --drugs for sex. Whatever. Shut Up, MEG!
@heatherfer Well, perhaps it's because I'm a male, but I have NEVER interpreted it that way. Yes, it is most definitely about a guy trying to woo a college girl from the South, but I'm not sure where you pulled the "sleazy, skeevy pedophilic" vibes from, but sounds like there's some issues going on there! Perhaps it would be best if the artist himself set the record straight.....<br /> chattanoogaradiotv.com/general/a-summer-song-moonlight-feels-right/
@heatherfer Holy sha-moley lady! You don’t just have issues, you’ve got the complete subscription! I can only imagine how you review meatloaf and Paradise by the dashboard lights, or kid Creole and the coconuts no more casual sex! Your train of thought is loaded with toxic sludge. Melodically and rhythmically this is beautiful. Lyrically it’s about a couple of consenting adults engaged in harmless pleasure. Anything beyond that is gross speculation based on projection of personal experience. I hope whatever unpleasantness you survived has healed and you’ve been able to find the good stuff again.<br /> Do you make some good points I agree with in your passive aggressive evaluation; especially the unusual instrument solo.