"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.
Let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
Surely you can take some comfort knowing that you're mine
Just hold me tight, lay by my side
And let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
I found my place in the world
Could stare at your face for the rest of my days
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out and smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me?
Let me be the one who never leaves you all alone
I hold my breath and lose the feeling that I'm on my own
Hold me too tight, stay by my side
And let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
I found my place in the world
Could stare at your face for the rest of my days
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me? Smother me, smother me
When I'm alone time goes so slow I need you here with me
And how my mistakes have made your heart break
Still I need you here with me
So baby I'm, baby I'm here
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me?
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me? Smother me, smother me
Let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
Let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
Let me be the one who calls you baby, the one who calls you baby
Surely you can take some comfort knowing that you're mine
Just hold me tight, lay by my side
And let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
I found my place in the world
Could stare at your face for the rest of my days
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out and smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me?
Let me be the one who never leaves you all alone
I hold my breath and lose the feeling that I'm on my own
Hold me too tight, stay by my side
And let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
I found my place in the world
Could stare at your face for the rest of my days
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me? Smother me, smother me
When I'm alone time goes so slow I need you here with me
And how my mistakes have made your heart break
Still I need you here with me
So baby I'm, baby I'm here
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me?
Now I can breathe, turn my insides out
And smother me
Warm and alive I'm all over you
Would you smother me? Smother me, smother me
Let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
Let me be the one who calls you baby all the time
Let me be the one who calls you baby, the one who calls you baby
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Smother Me Lyrics as written by Quinn Allman Jeph Howard
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i was a little disappointed by this song. i guess its because i saw the title Smother Me and immeadiatly thought that it was gonna be like a fast-paced, loud song, with the most screaming out of anything on the album. i don't know why i thought that, i just did. this album is great, but it DOES have just a few too many slower/acoustic/softer songs.