"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.
Whisper softly softly in my ear
Say all the things I want to hear
So speak low, if you speak love
Oh baby baby drink the poison
We can disappear, away, away from here
Can you hear?
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
They just laugh and dance at insecurities
Well I know who I am
Do you know who I am?
Oh baby baby drink the poison
We can disappear, away, away from here
Can you hear?
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Tell me, can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
Cause I know who I am
Do you know, who I am?
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
Well I know who I am
And You'll never know who I am
Can you hear
Whisper softly in your ears,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Tell me, can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Say all the things I want to hear
So speak low, if you speak love
Oh baby baby drink the poison
We can disappear, away, away from here
Can you hear?
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
They just laugh and dance at insecurities
Well I know who I am
Do you know who I am?
Oh baby baby drink the poison
We can disappear, away, away from here
Can you hear?
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Tell me, can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
Cause I know who I am
Do you know, who I am?
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
I say those god damn kids got nothing on me
Well I know who I am
And You'll never know who I am
Can you hear
Whisper softly in your ears,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Tell me, can you hear
Whisper softly in your ear,
We will never, ever know
Cause our love was always a secret
Lyrics submitted by daysbefore
Speak Low If You Speak Love Lyrics as written by Jesse Paul Barrera Dustin Hook
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