"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.
Time it goes on waits for nobody special
In the prime of my life I'll remember you
Livin' and breathin' and some misbelievin'
But I can't hold you women, no piece of you
You were the magic , my only believer
My life on the line for you
All that I give to you
Time is time
Don't give me no time to waste away
Love is love
Keep me alive to my dying day
Now is now
We capture the world
And love will make it all right, all right
Time it goes on waits for nothing on over
But I still see your sun that you shine on me
Giving and taking and always mistakin'
But I'll follow you women, eternally
You were the magic , my only believer
My life on the line for you
All that I give to you
Time is time
Don't give me no time to waste away
Love is love
Keep me alive to my dying day
Now is now
We capture the world
And love will make it all right , all right
Setting my sights in one only direction
Searching for romance and showing affection
I guess I better know one, standing in the cold dark
Waiting for your love
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
In the prime of my life I'll remember you
Livin' and breathin' and some misbelievin'
But I can't hold you women, no piece of you
You were the magic , my only believer
My life on the line for you
All that I give to you
Time is time
Don't give me no time to waste away
Love is love
Keep me alive to my dying day
Now is now
We capture the world
And love will make it all right, all right
Time it goes on waits for nothing on over
But I still see your sun that you shine on me
Giving and taking and always mistakin'
But I'll follow you women, eternally
You were the magic , my only believer
My life on the line for you
All that I give to you
Time is time
Don't give me no time to waste away
Love is love
Keep me alive to my dying day
Now is now
We capture the world
And love will make it all right , all right
Setting my sights in one only direction
Searching for romance and showing affection
I guess I better know one, standing in the cold dark
Waiting for your love
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Time is time
Don't give me no wrong in makin' love
Love is love, turn me around till you burn me up
Now is now, we master the world
And time will make it all right , all right
Lyrics submitted by webmasterdee
Time Is Time Lyrics as written by Barry Gibb Andy Gibb
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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